Posted on 09/01/2005 4:17:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Received these via email from UPRR.com
Just Screwed!
Jeez.... and that is just one railroad company...imagine all the shipping goods and other goods that were in the port of New Orleans. what a mess.
Railroad ping
Great pics. Too bad people with dial up won't get to see them.
We're lost one of our most important ports, and it's going to hurt the railroads, not only in terms of lost revenues, but also in terms of rebuilding, if in fact the port is rebuilt.
Thanx Karl. By the time I'm 90 years old I'll have one heck of a scrapbook of events in my life to show my grandchildren.
So far it's been an amazing 41 years.
Doesn't really look all that bad. Most of the rolling stock is upright and on the rails, most of the track looks like it will be OK once the water is gone. Too early to tell if there was enough flow to scour out under the ties, but the fact the cars aren't tipped over is a good sign.
Someone's going to be very busy...
I have dial-up, and they loaded in less than 2 minutes for me.
And the Mississippi (even older than the railroads) has ships trying to exit through The City of New Orleans. (Katrina's been gone 500 miles when day was done.)
These pix look like the Lego's on my basement floor that my son hasn't picked up yet.
Are those barges? Were they pushed into that bridge? Looks like it tried to go up an onramp?
wow ping
No kidding? Someone must have replaced my dial up while I wasn't looking. By the time I had examined the first one, the rest were loaded.
About 45 seconds on dial up. at: 32.0 kbps
Hurricane Katrina Interrupts Service Through New Orleans Updated 8/31/2005 4:00 p.m. Union Pacific has completed the initial inspection of our main track and terminal facilities in and around the New Orleans area. While there is debris to be cleared, our track structure sustained no major damage. Structural inspections of bridges in the New Orleans area continue. Commercial electricity is still not available to many of our facilities. Telephone service is available to our Avondale Yard, however, data transmission capabilities are not available.
Members of the Union Pacific family have been deeply impacted by this disaster, along with other residents in the area. We continue to make contact with our employees in the area, to offer them assistance and determine their availability to report for work.
The embargoes remain in place for all traffic on the Livonia Subdivision between St. James, LA east to New Orleans, and on the Lafayette Subdivision to UP-served stations between New Iberia, LA east to New Orleans. We are working with our customers on the Livonia Subdivision, many of whom had damage to their facilities, to provide local service as needed as they work to restore their operations.
We continue to work closely with the eastern carriers as they assess the damage to their systems and are jointly developing alternative operating plans for New Orleans traffic through other gateways. We will provide more information regarding alternative routing of connecting traffic as those plans are finalized. In the meantime, we ask that customers continue to route their traffic as they have in the past, until we notify them of the alternative routing plans.
Customers with traffic moving to, from or through the New Orleans area should continue to anticipate delays.
Woah! Nothing coming in and out of there for awhile.
The beds can't be trusted. That'll take months to rehab. They should just start over on higher ground further inland.
New Iberia??!! Thats where they make Tabasco! REBUILD NOW!!!
Perhaps they should salvage some of those containers and retrofit them for use as temporary housing and storage.
That's what I was thinking - how many of those cars contain damaged goods which will never reach the stores who ordered them.
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