16 Replies to “Hurricane Michael”

  2. Trains use diesel, so they deserve whatever mother earth wants to do to them. Carrying freight is the main driver of global climate gender, or whatever they are calling it these days. Global gender change? Trans climatology? Intersectional shit disturbing?

    2. Trains use less carbon to transport a ton of supplies ( food for example) than any other mode of mass transportation.
      Your logic is as flawed as your stupid ideology.
      Also, global warming isn’t caused by carbon, carbon FOLLOWS the rise in temps. Maybe you don’t like to read about climate as much as you just like to “think” about climate.

      Anyway, you’re foolish.

    3. Kev, just be a good steward of Mother Earth, stop supporting morons like Al Gore and his drivel.

      1. A reread of Kevin’s remarks might allow you to understand that he is mocking so many of the politically correct mandates we live under these days. By confusing the various topics, (“global climate gender”, for example combines two of them), he is effectively saying that the nonsense of the left deserves ridicule. In other words. I don’t think he meant what you thought he meant.

  3. God bless all those affected. The American Red Cross and the Salvation Army- USA both accept donations designated for particular disasters, for anyone interested.

  4. Certainly impressive display of wind power. Wondering why the RR didn’t move these cars farther inland…..

    Not an engineer (of either kind) but looks like a pivot point is where the break is. Probably not really designed to hold car to wheels under such extremes….. weight would generally be sufficient to keep things together. Also note that the cars were still coupled together. One pivot goes and the twist adds further stress to the adjoining car.

    In any case, again, why did they leave the cars where wind/water damage might be worst? They had ample warnings that the hurricane was coming. Now that I think about that warning thing, I wonder if we’ll see photos of ships/boats washed up onto the beach, I mean in spite of the warnings.

    1. Good question. You correctly pin point the weak spot susceptible to very high winds. This sort of truck and car separation occurs fairly often.

      The pivot point (bolster) is designed to facilitate easy replacement of trucks (wheel assembly) or the axle assembly in the field by cranes if necessary or by a shop crane.

  6. It was a pretty small amount of time from “Tropical Storm Michael” to “Cat 4 Major Hurricane Michael.” About 48 hours really, which is less warning than we expect these days. Plus, since the storm track is uncertain, it may not be possible for cars on a particular company’s trackage to be moved to a safer place. And, one has to round up locomotives and crews. Railroad workers are very unionized and arranging a big move on short notice would be complicated and expensive.

    Freight car owners (which usually aren’t the same as railroad owners) pay the owners of little-used trackage to store their cars until they are needed. There are always thousands of grain-hopper cars sitting on sidings in the upper Midwest, until they are brought into use during harvest time.

    So, there probably wasn’t time or labor available to get the cars moved to a safer place.

  7. This was not a train. Train cars true, but a train is defined as a locomotive attached to cars displaying markers (the Flashing light at the end of the train, for one).

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