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Mudslide in Westchester Co. affecting trains between Albany and NYC
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The article is really saying what we already know. It was a big landslide on MNRR which they are working to get clear for tomw morning. not in article: Yesterday's outgoing Lake from Penn was cancelled,. the set from Chicago went to Boston intact and the NYP passengers were sent home on 65.
NY just announced resumption of service tomw morning, with some reductions. Hopefully, Amtrak will get a fair number of slots.
Here is a link to a CBS News article regarding the mudslide
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/new...udson-line-amtrak-service-westchester-county/
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/new...udson-line-amtrak-service-westchester-county/
Not looking too bad if this holds up:
https://www.amtrak.com/alert/amtrak-service-mostly-restored-alb-nyp.html
https://www.amtrak.com/alert/amtrak-service-mostly-restored-alb-nyp.html
Here's a picture of the slide. Someone's McMansion is worth a whole lot less.
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The similarities to the West Coast events in the last few years are discouraging at best.
Tracks below bluffs near river or sea or sound. (or above bluffs that beetle o'er the sea).
Looks a lot like the tracks from Seattle to Everett.
Top of bluff is "developed", trees and their roots gone, grass and impermeable homes of humans and their cars take tree's place.
Rain then either runs off, or sinks thru to the old impermeable clay layer near track level. This makes that layer near the track level wetter and wetter over time until it liquefies, slumps onto the right of way, undermining the bluff, just like we see here.
I'm quite sure most of us are familiar with places where the first tracks were laid near a river valley because the "water level route" is usually the least steep way uphill. The tracks are still there, the artificial cuts to make room for the tracks are still there, and this in the photo above is what can and does happen, moreso more recently.
Tracks below bluffs near river or sea or sound. (or above bluffs that beetle o'er the sea).
Looks a lot like the tracks from Seattle to Everett.
Top of bluff is "developed", trees and their roots gone, grass and impermeable homes of humans and their cars take tree's place.
Rain then either runs off, or sinks thru to the old impermeable clay layer near track level. This makes that layer near the track level wetter and wetter over time until it liquefies, slumps onto the right of way, undermining the bluff, just like we see here.
I'm quite sure most of us are familiar with places where the first tracks were laid near a river valley because the "water level route" is usually the least steep way uphill. The tracks are still there, the artificial cuts to make room for the tracks are still there, and this in the photo above is what can and does happen, moreso more recently.
Just saw an alert that 48/448 from Chicago will terminate at Albany today.
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Likewise. No problem in opening the link. Possibly some Browser setting that is more protective than usual is interfering. It is a local issue, not a global one.
