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News Wire: BNSF using drones to survey Harvey damage near Houston

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:07 AM

HOUSTON — With much of the Houston area rendered inaccessible by continued rainfall and historic levels of flooding, BNSF has mobilized its aerial inspection program to get a head start on surveying the damage. Todd Graetz, Director of Techno...

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 4:44 PM

Well they won't be using hi-rails for some time.

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Posted by rdamon on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 7:42 AM

It will be interesting to see if there are any incidents of collissions with other drones and/or manned aircraft as I bet there will several groups using them in the damage area.

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