Originally Posted by
BobH
From a reliable website; I've heard it could take two months to get everything back in shape -- and that's if there aren't any more slides! Bob H
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January 31, 2008
OAKRIDGE, Ore. - Union Pacific Railroad crews continue to work around the clock to clear a massive amount of debris from a Jan. 19 mudslide that covered its main line between California and the Pacific Northwest. According to UP spokeswoman Zoe Richmond, 46 pieces of construction equipment are at work on the slide.
The 2.3 million cubic yards of debris that slid down the mountain, according to UP, would fill a football field to the height of Chicago's Sears Tower.
UP freights continue to detour over BNSF Railway through Bend, Ore., and Amtrak's Coast Starlight remains annulled.
Approximately 700,000 board feet of timber have been recovered, and smaller limbs and debris are being burned.
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Sounds like another one for the record books, similar in effort to the DRG&W slide back in the '80s that closed their mainline for some time.
I bet the former GN Inside Gateway is really humming now - wonder if it is still TWC with limited ABS, or did BNSF upgrade it to CTC. If it's the former, I'd hate to be in Ft. Worth assigned to that dispatcher desk.
