Page 1 of 1
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 06:26 #37074 | |
Backup
89 posts |
Looks like they're facing a **** of a cleanup job to get trains moving again. There are reports of hundreds of fallen trees on tracks, perhaps to be expected; but this is one of the more unusual obstructions on the lines:  Take care, people. 
Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 08:16 #37076 | |
|
derbybest
274 posts |
A Boat Train?
Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 10:19 #37077 | |
|
kbarber
1742 posts |
I once saw a printout of the Liverpool St Control log for the great storm of 1987. Among the more improbable entries were: Cockle sheds reported on the line at leigh on Sea Fishing boats reported on the line at Leigh on Sea Most notable was the laconic tone of the whole thing, including writing Leigh on Sea in full - on the ground I never heard it called anything other than Leigh. Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 13:51 #37088 | |
dmaze
88 posts |
I managed to guess (correctly!) that it was somewhere on the New York Metro-North commuter system, which I visit occasionally. (At Ossining, says Google, on the ex-NYC Hudson River main line.) Actually, the article I found has some other rail-related pictures. Here in Boston people were panicking about the storm a lot, and there were quite a few power outages, but yesterday almost-but-not-quite-everything was up and running ("except the Providence/Attleborough line between Mansfield and Wickford Junction", which is actually about half its length); today everything seems back to normal, including the full suburban commuter rail system. Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 15:30 #37090 | |
jc92
3685 posts |
" said:I once saw a printout of the Liverpool St Control log for the great storm of 1987. Among the more improbable entries were:whenever i used to visit family at southend, it was always leigh and old leigh, never leigh on sea, same at southend, never southend on sea.(good days of my childhood as my grandparents had a flat directly overlooking central station, right behind the old signal box!) "We don't stop camborne wednesdays" Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 15:53 #37091 | |
GeoffM
6376 posts |
" said:whenever i used to visit family at southend, it was always leigh and old leigh, never leigh on sea, same at southend, never southend on sea.(good days of my childhood as my grandparents had a flat directly overlooking central station, right behind the old signal box!)Maybe I delivered newspapers to them then... I didn't have many around that area, only one or two per street, lots of streets, but I do remember it involved cycling past that signalbox every day. They (the signal box) never did reply to my letter requesting a visit .Anyway, it's Sarfend. SimSig Boss Log in to reply The following user said thank you: jc92 |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 19:55 #37093 | |
|
primedetective
33 posts |
Yeah I live in California, but I hear about all of the news from the East Coast. Apparently much of the New York subway system is still underwater, and is expected to be at only 90% effectiveness after a full month IIRC. The salt water can corrode the switches and the third rail and debris will have to be cleaned off the tracks. They haven't even begun pumping the water out of the tunnels because the outflow pipes are still below the river level.
Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 21:35 #37094 | |
|
dmaze
88 posts |
...relatedly, New York Pennsylvania Station is underwater, which means that there's no Amtrak service to New York at all right now. Amtrak's current update says no service at all between New Haven, CT and Newark, NJ, and no Acela Express service at all. It looks like most other service is running, but not south of Albany, NY "due to track damage south of Albany-Rensselaer" (see also, "boat").
Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 31/10/2012 at 22:10 #37095 | |
|
GeoffM
6376 posts |
More rail-related photos here .
SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| USA hurricane damage 01/11/2012 at 05:23 #37102 | |
|
pilotman
189 posts |
Nice to see water troughs making a comeback.
Log in to reply |