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Winds affect consists that are tall and light, especially TOFC and stacks. A quartering wind (headwind at a45deg angle) is worse than a direct headwind. High crosswinds have been known to blow trailers right off flatcars on certain bridges. This happened on Milwaukee's Columbia River span at Beverley WA (foldout in March 05 Trains) and CNW's KAte Shelley bridge over the Des Moines river in Iowa. The incident at the former caused the RR to install a high wind monitor device which could make the signals for that block show a stop indication.
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