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Grass fires in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma

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Grass fires in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma
Posted by diningcar on Sunday, March 27, 2016 10:03 AM

The BNSF Transcon goes through this area and there are some short line operations here also. There is a report of a RR trestle being burned with no specifics. Any info about the effect on the BNSF Transcon (most importent) or other RR operations would be appreciated.

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Posted by mudchicken on Sunday, March 27, 2016 11:30 AM

BNSF is doing OK, but the transcon just south of the KS/OK border is a source for concern (trains running with a bulletin form C  on fire and visibility in Woods County (Avard-Alva) area...Range fires are hardly predictable.

http://www.fireengineering.com/ap-news/2016/03/24/crews-bringing-wildfires-in-kansas-oklahoma-under-control/image-gallery.html

Bridge at Lake City that burned (Open Deck Pile Trestle) was on abandoned (2003, by V&S/CKR/ATSF Medicine Lodge Branch [Altus/Belvedere Jcn KS]) line

Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west

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