Maybe time to start a thread with all the bridge service disruptions due to wind.
This time on BNSF Raton sub. Reported 5 miles west of La Junta at MP 559. Bridge not salvageable. Train 4 reported being towed to ABQ by #3. Then Amtrak requesting reroute #4 ABQ - Topeka. Guess it will need pilot(s).
Source is trainorders.
This will be at least a week or reroutes?? Priority might not be too high with what how many feights a day?
The segment affected is LaJunta-Trinidad. It seems the reroute could have been via Pueblo, but backtracking to ABQ would suggest via the Southern Transcon?
I believe this is a 28 foot ballast deck pile trestle.
I believe this is a 28 foot ballast deck pile trestle with an irrigation canal flowing under.
(an irrigation canal that rarely, if ever runs water anymore (Otero Canal))....If this is an agridummy burning/cleaning ditches during a red flag warning, that person ought to be shot. Probably a spark or cigarette from a passing car on US-350....
Wonder if they would consider running LJ-Las Animas Junction-Boise City- Amarillo -AQ as they have in the past? Not sure if the Crooked & Slow is a viable option right now.
Adhe CZ bridge fire. Here are all the Amtrak tweets.
Add CZ bridge fire. Location not known yet. Sorry about previous post cannot eliminate it.
5 left Lincoln 2 hours ago 9:15 late. 6 left Denver about same time 14:30 late.
3 and 4 canceled today from LAX and CHI.
The fire is now named the "61 - Incident" for the record. (Last reported as being only 4 Acres)
The Otero Canal, Water Right #13, has been around since 1890. Rarely flows unless there is high water in the Arkansas River where it comes out of the Arkansas River at the mouth of the Apishapa River, some 25 miles to the W-NW from where the fire was. Its fate went downhill after the fall of the sugar beet in the 1960's in the Arkansas Valley.
There seems to be some debate over whether the railroad will drive another bridge or just drop in pipe culverts. (Br. 559.4?)
There is another bridge fire in Nebraska affecting 5 & 6 on BNSF (CB&Q side)
559.4 is correct, MC.
Another one in Texas on BNSF;
Watch: Wildfire takes out railroad bridge in Texas - Railway Track and Structures (rtands.com)
Believe this is on the Dumas Sub north of Amarillo and is bridge 16.2, a 100' AA Girder with 42' and 56' BDPT approaches on each end.
and the tamarac's in those ravines and river bottoms are thick....for the un-initiated BDPT = Ballast deck pile trestle
AA =?
That's somewhere around Chunky/Puente, somewhere south of the Canadian River where the railroad is on stilts with concrete box beam spans everywhere. (nasty access)
This location, if I am correct in its identification, is on the Las Animas Jct. to Amarillo line; and is a critical line for BNSF traffic from Denver toward Amarillo. The traffic from Amarillo toward Denver uses the line via Dalhart and Trinidad.
Sunsets both way cancelled due to bridge fire near Palm Springs.
Texas Eagle Train 422 which is scheduled to depart Los Angeles (LAX) on 5/1 will now originate in in San Antonio (SAS) due to a bridge fire east of Palm Springs (PSN). For further assistance please call 1-800-USA-RAIL.
Any further news about the bridge that burned north from Amarillo on BNSF?
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