diningcar wrote:WHERE??????
My thoughts exactly.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Northtown Yard is in the Twin Cities area. This should be s.o.p. when there's a tornado warning.
Had some rough weather by us last night, too--glad I was done with work when it hit. Maybe the rain power-washed our main line between Lombard and Proviso (there's a thread about that).
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
....There's a pattern of nasty weather stuff in our midwest here and sure hope it soon changes. It's effected lots of people and infrastructure in a wide area...including our own state. {Indiana}.
Quentin
According to TV news this morning Indiana was particularly nailed by the storms. Plenty of work ahead for track inspectors, MOW and C&S crews. Washouts, soft roadbeds and failed communication/signals all over the place, I'd guess.
Don't know a lot about electrical storms but if running the power I'd think about putting my feet between my fanny and the cushion (praying position?).
Railroads would seem to be well connected with the ground. Any lightning history for this subject out there?
Flix
rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
you forgot the bunny.
I hope AND doubt everyone is OK.
Rix
....We've escaped the bad stuff right here, but there has been some fatilities.....much infrastructure damage....Electrical transmission lines {and poles down}......homes flooded...{some up to the eves}.....electrical power outages still in some areas from a previous hit....{Friday}......and today it is really getting hot again. But the sun is shining. Surely, the pattern will soon change.
Actually we do shut em down when the lightning gets bad. I have worked some nights where it looked like day light all the lightning strikes. We shut down the hump and all yard jobs, and even hostler jobs when that happens.
High wind warnings leave you stranded in a siding or on the main for hours,This aint your grandpappys railroad lol.But I have been out in a downpour with no lightning,thats always fun when you get back in and your boots squish with everystep and even though you had rain gear on your soaked cause of the humidity.Ahh fun times lol.
Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train
We got a chance to see how waterproof those remote boxes are today. There were several sudden downpours in our area that didn't amount to much in the gauge. The rain would come, and the hump would stop so the RCO could put on his rain gear--by which time the shower was over and he'd be nice and steamy inside the rain suit.
At least I didn't have to bail out the tower this time!
CShaveRR wrote: At least I didn't have to bail out the tower this time!
Whoa! I missed that story.
Kevin C. Smith wrote: CShaveRR wrote: At least I didn't have to bail out the tower this time!Whoa! I missed that story.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
....J.....Am I reading the time on your above post correctly.....That was still time to be "sawing logs"....Not...?
SFbrkmn wrote:I did not know about the Chicago storm until I watched the report Sunday morn on Weather Channel. The area that was hit in south Chicago, where was this in relation to Union Station, White Sox park and Homewood.? Not much of an expert on the area, just wondering as I was through there last winter.
There were about six tornadoes reported in the Chicago metro area on Saturday but the closest one that did significant damage was about 40 plus miles away from downtown Chicago in the SW suburbs beyond Joliet. Interestingly there was one small twister that touched down very close to the site of the memorial for the victims of the F-5 tornado that hit Plainfield back in about 1990 (or was it 1991, I can't recall exactly). That surely must have sent shivers up and down the spines of the residents of Plainfield!
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-32515
This link will show the twister that did all the damage in the SW suburbs.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-32648
shows railroad under water
Kevin C. Smith wrote: CShaveRR wrote: At least I didn't have to bail out the tower this time! Whoa! I missed that story.
Sorry, no real story involved there--the windows just leak so badly that when the wind is from the right direction it doesn't take long for the floor to get soaked. This past weekend the wind was from behind me, so rarely did the rain even hit the windows (the loss of visibility when the windows are soaked has also thankfully produced no horror stories--yet!).
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