A story updated laye 1/7 from the Quincy Herald-Whig actually states that it
was a drift that stopped the train. They had to back into Princeton and that
BNSF employees were working to reopen the track.
The drift thing was also backed up by an interview on WGN TV news with a
passenger saying he saw the drift. They had pushed through several, each one
delaying the train another 5 to 15 minutes as they did.
There was a cell phone pic by someone but it wasn't very good.
Living here in Chicago, I can vouch that it was damned brutal. The wind,
using just the snow already on the ground, created a 2 foot drift against my
front door at the back of a sheltered porch. The drift was hard as a rock,
too. My neighbor did me the favor of actually chopping his way through it
then shoveling it off.
Rob McNay
Chicago IL
-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ted
Schnepf
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:05 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] 3 Amtrak trains stalled near Mendota
Hi Leo,
I also under stand your confusion. As busy as that line is, the freight
trains usually keep the snow passable. May need to run a flanger or a
spreader to widen things out, but busy mainlines don't get snowdrifts deep
enough to stop trains.
So did the freight side also shut down?
Ted
At 10:28 PM 1/6/2014, you wrote:
>Tonight's Chgo news reports 3 Amtrak trains stalled near Mendota,due to
>"blowing snow".
>
>Any one have details ?
>
>As a veteran of the battles of the 77-78 and 78-79 winters that have
>been documented as colder with far more snow and of longer duration I
>find this hard to understand. We didn't have any Amtraks stuck back then.
>
>I rode #5 at the height of the 78-79 storm from Aurora to Omaha to
>attend a union general committee meeting. We certainly ran late but
>ran. We did have a pair of SD 40s or 45s running ahead of as a snowplow.
>
>Leo Phillipp
>
>Sent from my iPad
Ted Schnepf
railsunl@sbcglobal.net
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