They can see track elevation settling and alignment deviation that will indicate if there is anything to be worried about. The side slope can be allowed to erode to within about two feet of the rail but likely the embankment supporting the track hasn't been compromised at all. The stuff that fell is just a sheer failure of a face that was already too steep but far enough out to be considered superficial.
Amtrak train to Montreal running along Lake Champlain is quite similar to this. They can only go about 10 miles an hour through a really bad stretch! If you're sitting on the riverside, it looks like you may fall in! Real interesting ride!
The vibration of the train could easily destabilize the remaining embankment and cause another catastrophic failure, this time with the train going down.
That's what the concrete piers are for. That said, the expense of continually adding reinforcements like those piers has led to plans for a tunnel under the town.
I used to ride my motorcycle on those tracks back in the early seventies
They can see track elevation settling and alignment deviation that will indicate if there is anything to be worried about. The side slope can be allowed to erode to within about two feet of the rail but likely the embankment supporting the track hasn't been compromised at all. The stuff that fell is just a sheer failure of a face that was already too steep but far enough out to be considered superficial.
Do you also work for Wyoming DOT? 🤣
It makes you wonder what the engineering expertise was behind this...
Jim you’re standing in the FRAG PATTERN! Get the heck out of there!
Just wanted to give you the best feel for it!
Amtrak train to Montreal running along Lake Champlain is quite similar to this. They can only go about 10 miles an hour through a really bad stretch! If you're sitting on the riverside, it looks like you may fall in! Real interesting ride!
And that hard-hat guy standing next to the tracks .. what's he supposed to do if the earth starts to move? Hold the hill back with his bare hands?
Now there's a lawsuit waiting to happen!.. that's something I would expect in a third world country.
That's the only way by rail into San Diego. They have to run
USA Is a third world country now man... Everything bad, you have .
EEK!
The vibration of the train could easily destabilize the remaining embankment and cause another catastrophic failure, this time with the train going down.
That's what the concrete piers are for. That said, the expense of continually adding reinforcements like those piers has led to plans for a tunnel under the town.
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