[bvw]

They also had rail lines -- the impoverished and poor, the car-less -- could have been rapidly moved out on boxcars, gondolas, even flat cars. That is what would have been done had awareness of the size of the storm been known in say 1910. Today? There would have a foolish insistence on having (1) passenger cars (2) prepared terminals and camps of facilities where to take the refugees.

But just getting the people out of the storm area, of itself alone, should have been paramount.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You know, there are even Amtrak lines, rated for human passengers. Duh! Slapping my head at the obvious, and wondering if other people if we bring this to their attention would do the same thing.

Of course, it would have taken cooperation between the line and train owners (Union Pacific and Amtrak), yet feasible...has it been so long since we've used trains that nobody thought about this? What an obvious do-able stupid oversight--

[BurbankKarl]

You dont have much knowledge of how a RR works? Do you think the RR would have left as many of their cars to get damaged if they had room and personnel elsewhere to move it somewhere?


I posted a thread on the La. board with pics of the UP yard in NO.