Not kilt related. train traffic slow down in the Sierra's

**Richrail** · 11th January 17, 09:02 PM

I work for Union Pacific Railroad. Two major corridors to the west are getting hammered with weather here are just a few pictures. First two are in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the last one is in the Black Rock desert.

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**T90** · 11th January 17, 09:55 PM

What do you do for UP?

**The Wizard of BC** · 11th January 17, 10:46 PM

Hey, they all look perfectly good to me. The track is still there. The ties are still there. Maybe if they go really fast they can do an Evil Kenevil. Hey, I saw it in a movie so it must be possible. I would bet that Chuck Norris or Bruce Willis wouldn't let a little thing like that slow them down. Just cowboy up and go for it.

**Richrail** · 11th January 17, 11:50 PM

What do you do for UP?

I'm currently working as a Conductor, but I'm also a licensed Engineer.

**Jock Scot** · 11th January 17, 11:56 PM

I dont suppose that you could spare a week or six and pop over to London and give the chaps at "Southern Rail" a hand, could you?

**T90** · 11th January 17, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by Richrail

I'm currently working as a Conductor, but I'm also a licensed Engineer.

That is fantastic, I do the same but for CN.

Looking at your photos reminded me of the flooded Pine River in northern BC this past Spring. over 50 miles of rail was either wiped out or rendered impassible because the rail bed had washed away and left the rail hanging in the air. A similar thing happened in 2011 in the same area, just on a smaller scale.

**cessna152towser** · 12th January 17, 02:02 PM

When I went to the Ventura Seaside Games in 2009 I was allocated a hotel room beside the railroad. "I hope you won't be disturbed by the trains" said the receptionist. More like a dream come true for me, to be wakened by the distant hooter and be up in time to open the curtains and watch a long freight headed by several power units racing through the night right outside the window. I rode from Santa Barbara to Ventura on an Amtrak California Surfliner train, powered by a UP SD70ACe. The guy with the bike told me this was quite rare. It seems that rather than have a defective Amtrak unit blocking their tracks, the UP will supply their own power unit to get it moving again.

Maybe you can be sent north and fix the railroad on Vancouver Island where most of my cousins live:-

Arrival of the daily Budd RDC from Victoria at Courtenay in March 2011, one week before the service ceased to run due to deteriorating condition of the track.

There was a major washout caused by flooding on the Carlisle to Settle route in the north of England during winter 2015/16 which is now being re-constructed and is due to re-open to trains during March 2017.
http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co...lway-land-slip