Canadian Railroads > A few more Fraser Canyon Slide pics

a few more photos of the mess near Falls Creek...

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That equipment looks pretty small for the task at hand. But, they'll get it done.

Looking forward to more photos as the work progresses.

Steve Mitchell
http://www.yardgoatimages.com

This looks very similar to UP's slide problems a few years ago in the Oregon Cascades. it was not a quick fix.

Does anybody have an idea how many trains were running along this side of the canyon at the time of the slide?

If so, how how close was to the slide was it?

How does anybody know that there's been a slide and stop the trains that are running before there's a catastrophe?

TIA,

Fritz in HSV, AL

RE: how do you know of a slide? - Look in the last picture....the one with the worker....you will see the slide detectors above.

Thanks.

I gather that the wires break as the slide impacts them thereby breaking a circuit that alerts the dispatcher as to where the slide is and allows him/her to order all trains "upstream" in the sub to STOP.

Fritz in HSV, AL

navy5717th Wrote:
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> Thanks.
>
> I gather that the wires break as the slide impacts
> them thereby breaking a circuit that alerts the
> dispatcher as to where the slide is and allows
> him/her to order all trains "upstream" in the sub
> to STOP.
>
> Fritz in HSV, AL

Dispatcher doesn't have to do anything, when the wires are broken the signals in the area automatically are set to stop, though the Dispatcher does get an indication also.

Thanks again. I'm just trying to figure this thing out -- as a non-expert.

Fritz

I reckon they'll have to blow up the large boulder on the 'left side' above the tunnel portal. Explosive experts to absail from the region above to place the charges(get an A10 to dislodge it!!)

mike

Michael McInerney
Marion, South Australia,

Well, those mountains were bound to keep crumbling.

THese are the kinds of things that make you cringe as an engineer in areas of the country like this. My hat is off to you guys who work these lines.