Western Railroad Discussion > "Niland Geyser" (Southern California)

TO members have diligently reported on this natural phenomenon for 5-6 years already. Use the keyword in the title for a quick TO search. Link below is a report about 2 years ago from TO member thatguy, and since then, the "geyser" has stayed about where it is:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,5632191

Google Maps call it the "Moving Mud Spring, Mundo" and Mundo is the nearest named location on the map. It is located about ~4500' SE (railroad east) from the signals at SP 661.8, ~662.7, so it is close to CP Wister on the Yuma Sub. I measured the ~4500' by coordinates obtained from old school non-Smartphone GPS so my location was not transmitted in real time.

I was loitering in the area recently, no known "high value targets" coming, so I was hunting randomly. When I saw the signal indications nearby, I guessed correctly that both a westbound and an eastbound was coming soon, so I drove to Mundo and got in position. Waited less than 5 minutes for each train. I got lucky and got 2 Z trains, no slow-rolling monster manifests, nor underpowered Long Beach stackers.

- I'm looking north. Mud geyser closest to the tracks.
- Shoofly tracks no longer being used. (looking SE)
- Video of 2 Z trains, westbound then eastbound.

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I wasn't the only knucklehead in the area. I'm sure these are more common now, thanks to trains being "PSR-long" these days.

That's it for the report.

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Very enjoyable, well put together story!

looked at it a few months ago rr is doing well, ( back where it is supposed to be) highway still had  a little impact  iirc

Not the only occurrence of hot substances coming to the surface in this area.  This is almost directly on top of the San Andreas Fault.

Good article on this thing in Wikipedia.  Dr. David Lynch is a USGS geologist that has been investigating it.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_Geyser
 

Kit Courter
Evergreen, CO
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