If you are going to have an incident, there is no sense half-stepping.
Washington & Idaho Ry Co. has an upset.
Just think what shape that track would be in if the W&I was battery powered with aluminum track. :lol:
If you’re going to do something, you might as well do it well!
I had not tied the idea of lagging maintenance and crumbling infrastructure to railfanning; those photos do give one something to consider.
Steve, that was an interesting post and link, thank you…
Thanks for posting the link to a very interesting coverage of a minor train wreck. I’ve seen a few of them first hand. Quite a lot of energy contained in all that weight traveling at even a moderate speed. Makes a mess when something goes wrong.
That was scary …I almost thought it was my RR and the wife had the leaf blower out again.