Passenger Trains > Amtrak thru Albany

Line is being reopened with a speed restriction. No need for detours.

Posted from Android

Eastbound Lake Shore used the normal route and arrived ALB at 2:48 PM - 5 minutes early.

Probably had to get some structural engineers to certify a chunk of it was not about to collapse.

Posted from Android

ABB Wrote:
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> Line is being reopened with a speed restriction.
> No need for detours.
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> Posted from Android

I get that the building has the possibility of falling down, or I guess that's the presumption right......and not trying to be sarcastic, but why would a speed restriction necessarily make a difference per say. Slower movement makes less of a disturbance perhaps? 

Anything bad that happens, is worse when things are going quickly. Collision energy goes up with the square of velocity, just basic physics.

Less vibration from a passing train.

Posted from Android

At this point it seems the actual danger is debris falling so yu obviously want to proceed at restricted speed.  Interesting if they employ a flagman.   that wall could collapse tomorrow but from what could read the buiding collapse scenation is part of the suit to get control of the building.

Bob

Oh, stuff falls of building in downtown Chcago

robj Wrote:
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> Oh, stuff falls of building in downtown Chcago

Which almost always leads to instantaneous street and sidewalk closures, inspection by the Department of Buildings, erection of scaffolding and shielding over the sidewalk and lots of bad publicity for the building owner.

What we see a lot of in Chicago is the facade materials failing and falling which is generally not a structural issue indicative of a total building collapse.

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Just as I forecast.  There was no claim of building falling down when the firemen were in there trying to put out the smoky cork fires.  
Now the news media just generally says the building fell on the Amtrak track when no debris fell on Amtrak, just some pieces on the siding track, and they could have fallen weeks ago.  City and County trying to steal the property.  And the City has its contractors ready to rebuild the building. 

Date: 07/29/22 16:47
Re: Burlington VT Ethan Allen inaugural may be cancelled
Author: PlyWoody That insulated building is really built very solid even after it had been on fire twice with the cork insulation burning.  Likely they will scale the building and knock anything that was loose and decide the south wall will not fall down, and run trains again.  The owner went into bankruptcy in reply to city action to take it over. Then the judge cancelled that bankruptcy, and it is in a new bankruptcy which blocks the city.  If the CP doesn't want to pass the west side of the building they can get around the building by coming down Amtrak from Schenectady and using the short connection "Bull Run" that used to be the route into the original Albany station.  The "Bull Run" connection is there but grown over with brush and what ever.  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/22 16:24 by PlyWoody.

GOOD!!!

The notion of using the Bull Run connector for full sized CP freight trains is a fantasy. NFW that’s gonna happen.