Rail roads and their tracks.

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Finally, something uglier than graffiti on a rail car....
 
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oldnslo said:
Why would they unload in Duluth if final destination is California? Wouldn’t it have been much easier to unload on Cali coast?

Very interesting how mounted so can go around corners.
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oldnslo said:
Why would they unload in Duluth if final destination is California? Wouldn’t it have been much easier to unload on Cali coast?

Very interesting how mounted so can go around corners.
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Most likely it's cheaper to ship to Duluth by ship, then on rail from Duluth to Canada. Could be that the problems with lack of rain in the Panama Canal area, forcing long delays was a deciding factor.

The skinny ends of the blades rest in a saddle that will allow them to move fore and aft to allow for buff/slack in couplers and draft gears and rotate for traversing curves. Really nothing the railroads haven't been doing for many years. I believe BN has been shipping Boeing aircraft fuselages from Washington to Kansas on special rail cars for quite a while.
 
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BravoXray said:
Most likely it's cheaper to ship to Duluth by ship, then on rail from Duluth to Canada. Could be that the problems with lack of rain in the Panama Canal area, forcing long delays was a deciding factor.

The skinny ends of the blades rest in a saddle that will allow them to move fore and aft to allow for buff/slack in couplers and draft gears and rotate for traversing curves. Really nothing the railroads haven't been doing for many years. I believe BN has been shipping Boeing aircraft fuselages from Washington to Kansas on special rail cars for quite a while.
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CA is Canada. The blades are going to Canada.
 
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CN dropped a few cars off at the Proctor MN.
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A man in Mishawaka, IN is lucky to be alive, after his car was hit by not one, but two trains. He had only minor injuries and was able to get out of the car after being hit by the first train, before the second one hit it.
Some idiots evade the Darwin award.


Man walks away after train hits car in Mishawaka
 
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Neat video of the P-811 Track Laying System lifting the new track, push the aggregate aside, remove the old wooden ties and place new concrete ties and clip the rail in place all at once with this amazing machinery. Anyone know where this is taking place?
 
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The person hosting this video is in Western PA, but I can't see anything in the video that would say where this is. I don't remember seeing one of these when they redid the Amtrak tracks through Princeton Junction. They had 3 or 4 machines to do that change out.
then they came back to replace all the cement ties that broke in the first year...........
 
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