Mud Slide for NS in Pittsburgh

[bbrant]

Part of the Mt. Washington hillside has come down and it looks like it's impacting the NS Mon Line behind Station Square on Pittsburgh's South Side. I can see NS has a crew there checking it out. Not sure if trains are able to get through the area.

Just thought I'd pass this along.

Brian

[dwil89]

Was it a major slide? Did they stop traffic for any length of time...If so....does anyone know if line is still out of service in that location? Thanks...Dave Williams http//groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown

[bbrant]

Dave -

Must not have been a major mud slide because trains were running as of 2:50PM yesterday. (Perhaps it was a train with 4-wheel drive!! ) Looked like things were back to normal today.

Brian

[dwil89]

Thanks...one reason I was asking, was because I was listening to the Harrisburg/Enola scanner feed on Railroad radio.net last night between 9 and 10PM...and all I was hearing at the time was chatter within Enola Yard, and communications with the Harrisburg Terminal Dispatcher. Normally, you'd hear alot of defect detectors and signal calling on the Mainline coming in and heading toward Pittsburgh interupting the Enola Yard talk, but last night, there was little of this. The Mainline is on a different frequency from Enola Yard, and the Harrisburg Terminal Dispatcher, so my only other guess would be that the road frequency might not have been dialed up last night on the feed, or else it was a pretty good lull on trains coming into town. I thought they might have been holding traffic off the Mon line if it had been a bad slide. Dave Williams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsaltoonajohnstown