trailrider
Well-Known Member
I don't know if anyone would want to do this, but it might be something different to put in an out-of-the-way branchline or siding:
As most of you know by now, the Front Range of Colorado is experiencing torrential rains. (The Weather Bureau has described it as "a Biblical episode")! The local T.V. station in Denver showed a siding where the roadbed was completely eroded away under the track and ties by a fastmoving stream over its banks. The rails are supported at either end for what looks like about thirty or forty yards. The ties are still attached to the rails.
This is very unusual for Northern Colorado, but those familiar with railroads in the Mississippi River, Ohio River and Missouri River areas, where flooding over railroad tracks is common, especially in the Spring. Back in the '40's and '50's, when steam locos were still around, they were sometimes called on to substitue for diesel electrics (when the water was less than around three-four feet deep), because the water would short out the electric traction motors. At least that was the caption of a photo in one book on the Burlington Route operations. You certainly couldn't model that very easily unless you had a non-functional steamer that you could mould "water" around the wheels.
As most of you know by now, the Front Range of Colorado is experiencing torrential rains. (The Weather Bureau has described it as "a Biblical episode")! The local T.V. station in Denver showed a siding where the roadbed was completely eroded away under the track and ties by a fastmoving stream over its banks. The rails are supported at either end for what looks like about thirty or forty yards. The ties are still attached to the rails.
This is very unusual for Northern Colorado, but those familiar with railroads in the Mississippi River, Ohio River and Missouri River areas, where flooding over railroad tracks is common, especially in the Spring. Back in the '40's and '50's, when steam locos were still around, they were sometimes called on to substitue for diesel electrics (when the water was less than around three-four feet deep), because the water would short out the electric traction motors. At least that was the caption of a photo in one book on the Burlington Route operations. You certainly couldn't model that very easily unless you had a non-functional steamer that you could mould "water" around the wheels.