Train wreck on I-5 another reminder of obstacles to transportation

[PiratePast40]

They'e talking about several days to remove the train cars and examine the roadway before opening the interstate. A major earthquake could also knock down quite a few overpasses and obstacles making travel almost impossible. Would be even worse if it was winter and everything was muddy.

Just something to keep in mind.

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[Member 34319]

They'e talking about several days to remove the train cars and examine the roadway before opening the interstate. A major earthquake could also knock down quite a few overpasses and obstacles making travel almost impossible. Would be even worse if it was winter and everything was muddy.

Just something to keep in mind.

This is why I'm a firm believer in working near your home.

All fails you can walk home.

I used to have a route that took me all over Seattle area on Wednesday. Something like this would mean I just got to take a night or two in a hotel room.

 

[No_Regerts]

This is a couple miles from my house. What a mess. People were backtracking north to Hwy 16 to Bremerton and then Hwy 3 through Shelton to 101 to Olympia to get around it.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Big mess!

Hello sir would you like to try our "new" 80mph commuter train?" Um......no!

 

[11Charlie]

My heart goes to the families this close to Christmas!

On the disaster side of this. That is why we are prepared. Go bag in the car and at the least a half of tank of gas at all times. I will make it home no matter what happens in my life. If for some reason its my time then God will take me.

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

i feel bad for everyone involved.

80 in a 30 is never good


just like 65 in the left lane....undesireable.

 

[nwslopoke]

They were reporting the new route would shave 10 minutes from the old route. I'm thinking running on time would be just as good. I know there was loss of life so all respect given. But there is an old saying, that the squeeze needs to be worth the juice. All this for a potential 10 minutes.

 

[CoastRange57]

They were reporting the new route would shave 10 minutes from the old route. I'm thinking running on time would be just as good. I know there was loss of life so all respect given. But there is an old saying, that the squeeze needs to be worth the juice. All this for a potential 10 minutes.

Expecting US engineers to build a dependable rail system capable of handling high speed rail traffic is a joke. The Euros have this down pretty good and their trains cruise along 130 mph plus. We took Amtrack up to Seattle about 8 years ago, and they constantly had to slow down for sh*t tracks all the time.

Put a fork in Amtrack, the US people do not care about a slow and inefficient transportation method. Let the freight trains have it, they do just fine at 50 mph or less.

 

[Caveman Jim]

This is a couple miles from my house. What a mess. People were backtracking north to Hwy 16 to Bremerton and then Hwy 3 through Shelton to 101 to Olympia to get around it.

I was going to go to Hobart this morning untill the wife called me about it.
I feel for those who have to commute through this, especially the soldiers but they can probably use the South entrance.

 

[Diamondback]

Expecting US engineers to build a dependable rail system capable of handling high speed rail traffic is a joke. The Euros have this down pretty good and their trains cruise along 130 mph plus. We took Amtrack up to Seattle about 8 years ago, and they constantly had to slow down for sh*t tracks all the time.

We USED to--back in my great-grandfather's day on the New York Central, they were doing 100+mph safely, DAILY, and that was with no electronics and STEAM locomotives hauling seventeen steel-and-concrete Pullmans that weighed a hundred tons each at a time.

 

[Argonaut]

Expecting US engineers to build a dependable rail system capable of handling high speed rail traffic is a joke. The Euros have this down pretty good and their trains cruise along 130 mph plus. We took Amtrack up to Seattle about 8 years ago, and they constantly had to slow down for sh*t tracks all the time.

Put a fork in Amtrack, the US people do not care about a slow and inefficient transportation method. Let the freight trains have it, they do just fine at 50 mph or less.

There a there are few European trains that run 130MPH. Most that do are for propaganda. European distances are very short compared to ours and we don't have the type of socialist society that allows mass property confiscation to allow building new routes. Even in California and there plans for high speed rail up the rural Central Valley they are thwarted everywhere they try to go by one group or another. European trains mostly stop so frequently the are lucky to run over 70. They do run very close together, you can open a window and touch a train passing the opposite direction making a 140 MPH closing speed pretty breathtaking. We, particularly in the West are just not passenger train people. The lowest of our society frequent them making them frequently dirty and unsafe. How about taking a train grocery shopping for say a family of 4.....how would you do that? We are an affluent society and no one wants to put up with that insanity. My wife and an associate were going to take BART from the east bay to San Francisco a few weeks ago for a meeting. The 10 story parking structure was full, no parking available for a mile, tickets were something like 60.00 plus 16.00 if they could have found a place. They started an hour before the meeting, wound up driving and being 3 hours late in a 20 mile trip. Modern urban living will (and does) make people insane doing no good in society. Even in the dark ages when plagues were decimating urban populations, country people frequently survived realitively unscathed.

 

[ZigZagZeke]

Interesting speculation...

Panicked ANTIFA Website Deletes Article About Sabotaging Train Tracks in Olympia After Derailment — Read It Here

 

[Sgt Nambu]

They were reporting the new route would shave 10 minutes from the old route. I'm thinking running on time would be just as good. I know there was loss of life so all respect given. But there is an old saying, that the squeeze needs to be worth the juice. All this for a potential 10 minutes.

 

[fredball]

The only obstical is doing 80 mph into 30 mph corner

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

The similarities between public transportation and memes, and mantra, are seemingly endless...

You don't know who else is riding or how many...
You cannot slow it down....
You cannot speed it up...
You think you know where it's headed...
There are strap hangers, free-loaders, highjackers sleepers, jumpers, stinkers, eaters, drinkers, smokers, etc.

You have to know when and where to get on and get off...

And when it crashes....a lot of people get hurt...

 

[Lilhigbee]

"Casey Jones you better
watch your speed..."

 

[CoastRange57]

"Casey Jones you better
watch your speed..."

"Driving that train, high on cocaine...."

 

[Sstrand]

Danged Russians . . .

Sheldon

 

[Lilhigbee]

Had there been someone going 65 on the left track this could have been avoided!!