Paging Ocasio-Cortez ... cleanup on track 1....
difference between this party and the Donner party? This one is worried about running out of diapers.
In the 1960s, some local lumberjack would have come out....cut the tree in half, and hauled off the tree in a matter of three hours. I guess they are waiting on some lumberjack to arrive?
Jeb! can fix it
Will Eddie Willers please pick up the red courtesy phone, Eddie Willers
I just bet they’re having fun...as long as the liquor lasts
I travel with sleeping pills.
Opposite end of country here, but we had many trees down past few days & some took forever to clear (one blocking a 4-lane state hwy) because they were so numerous. Hope the train passengers get out soon if they haven’t already.
Opposite end of country here, but we had many trees down past few days & some took forever to clear (one blocking a 4-lane state hwy) because they were so numerous. Hope the train passengers get out soon if they haven’t already.
Dagny Taggart would have got things moving by now.
This is more of a snow story than a train being stopped by a tree. It seems like all the places that have been suffering from less snow for the last 10 years are finally getting it again. It’s all Cyclical.
Fake news, un-possible. Everyone knows this generation will never again know what snow looks like.
OH the humanity!!!!!!!
a private railroad would have had the track cleared in a matter of hours
My dad used to run that track as an engineer. There are places it is in the middle of nowhere and the recent snows makes it impossible. Surprised they couldn’t bring another train up to move the people though.
I worked with a nurse whose husband worked for Amtrak. She used to call it “Slamtrack”.
You should be able to surmise from the story, the rail line the Amtrak train is using there in Oregon is owned and maintained by the Union Pacific railroad.
That is one of the issues Amtrak has altogether. It does not own or maintain most of the rail beds it uses. It pays to use the rail beds owned and maintained by rail freight companies in most cases.
When the private rail businesses (most ran both passengers and freight) were heading towards bankruptcy Amtrak got their passenger services and the private companies (20 of them altogether) kept the freight services AND IN MANY CASES THE TRACKS AS WELL.
All this happened (1970s under Nixon) as both air travel and the Interstate Highway system were diminishing the need for many passenger train stops, and many routes as well. Amtrak - the taxpayers - got the financially losing part of the business, and the railroad companies got the financial room to concentrate on freight.
Great. I can wait for my only travel options to be (a) walking or (b) taking amtrak. What 1800’s idiocy!
They’ll probably have to clear the roads just to get to it. Lots of trees down in Oregon. I’m in Southwest Oregon and on day 3 with no power due to fallen trees across the lines. I’ve got a half dozen down on my property that’ll need to be cleared when it thaws. Prayers for the people on that train.