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Scenery Failure
Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, October 23, 2023 6:54 AM

And you thought you had troubles on your layout...

Metro-North and Amtrak stopped in Westchester County
after a small landslide. These tracks are owned by Metro-North
Amtrak has trackage rights. Three tracks are powered one is not.
No local trains on that track!

 

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Posted by JoeinPA on Monday, October 23, 2023 7:38 AM

Looks like they used too much "wet" water.Big Smile

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Posted by MJ4562 on Monday, October 23, 2023 8:46 AM

Reminds me of photo that was on the cover of MRR magazine back in the mid eighties.   

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Posted by Track fiddler on Monday, October 23, 2023 9:33 AM

Those two tracks look like a good place to parallel park, just as long as they are both powered upYes

I'll Shake the Dice!  Three out of four ain't badHuh?

The worst thing that could happen, is only one Park JobLaugh

 

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Posted by kasskaboose on Monday, October 23, 2023 3:10 PM

What's along the right side of the track--the one without scenery at the end? 

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, October 23, 2023 3:22 PM

Happened Saturday morning, on the Hudson Line (obviously!) near Scarborough.  Amusingly, it's someone's expensively-watered tapis-vert yard that collapsed.  So speculation here was more accurate than might have been expected...

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Posted by Track fiddler on Monday, October 23, 2023 4:07 PM

Definitely concur with that analogy.  But still think there's only one possibility of one Park Job, unless that other track's lit up?

 

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Posted by kasskaboose on Monday, October 23, 2023 8:38 PM

Sadly, the mudeslide picture looks all too realistic.

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 5:07 AM

kasskaboose
What's along the right side of the track--the one without scenery at the end?

Not sure what you mean.  This is the old NYC, earlier NYC&HR 4-track 'Water Level Route" north out of GCT to Croton/Harmon (and unelectrified, further north and west...).  View is facing north, and that's the Hudson River to the left.  The high-speed tracks with concrete ties appear to be the outboard tracks of the four here.  Note the third rail twisted and pushed over on the rightmost track.  I think the crumpled thing that looks like a platform edge is a metal duct for lineside cabling.

Many of the trains MN and Amtrak run on this line are dual mode (to avoid the traditional engine swap at Harmon) and even if the third rail on the far westernmost track had to be temporarily de-energized I'd think bidirectional moves using that track would be possible if it were open... and no further slip or subsidence might be triggered by vibration of a passing train.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 8:57 AM

THANKS. It is hard for me to see that out here in North Dakota!

Overmod

Happened Saturday morning, on the Hudson Line (obviously!) near Scarborough.  Amusingly, it's someone's expensively-watered tapis-vert yard that collapsed.  So speculation here was more accurate than might have been expected...

 

And that homeowner is still going to pay taxes on the land that iws no longer there. Up in Devil's Lake (the town) The rising lake waters have caused the highways to be lifted several times, but the farmers whose labd is under the lake must still pay the taxes on that land. No relief for you.  ET

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:52 AM

Note what appears to be a great amount of stone and perhaps cement in with the dirt.  That might indicate that the original 'homebuilder' made that level lawn with a huge curved retaining wall, responsibly tied back 30' with stone anchorages -- but the whole schmear sitting on an earth slope down closer to the tracks.  Perhaps without face drains...

I keep thinking of this situation as being like a sort of Z-scale Johnstown Flood situation.  The State of Pennsylvania built an enormous lake to supply canal water... then the canal system became obsolescent, so they sold it to a club that used it as a glorified private fishin' hole.  Until there was too much water hitting the neglected 1830s or whatever it was dam...

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:40 PM

Here's the 'before' view:

 Hudson Home by Edmund, on Flickr

You can make out (hi-rail) construction vehicles working on the cable troughs that are placed along the east (top) side of the main line.

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Posted by Mister Mikado on Saturday, October 28, 2023 11:57 AM

BroadwayLion

And you thought you had troubles on your layout...

Metro-North and Amtrak stopped in Westchester County
after a small landslide. These tracks are owned by Metro-North
Amtrak has trackage rights. Three tracks are powered one is not.
No local trains on that track!

 

 

Excellent modeling, great detail!  Even the Hudson River backdrop!  Whose layout is this?  (God's, LOL)

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