[FONT="]I noticed a lot of very long trains at a complete stop today as I was driving along the Rt66 between Victorville and Barstow, CA. I just don’t remember ever seeing anything like this before and then later in the day I had to wait maybe 15 min to get across a crossing and there was already a line of 15 or more car in line before I got there.[/FONT]
If a yard gets plugged, it can back up trains for quite some distance. Or, if it wasn't an m-o-w window, maybe something went on the ground?
I remember to many of these incedents where I was called out to perform a very difficult task. If there was a car or pedestrian versus train you could see trains at stop for a couple of hours. I hope that wasn't the case in this situation but it happens.
I didn't see anything in the news, but I wonder if it had anything to do the ships being backed up. I saw a very long train full of empty Auto Rack Cars and 3 pretty long Intermodals all stopped. There were more in Barstow heading south, but I had to jump on the freeway at that point and couldn't see much of them. They were all heading south toward San Bernardino.
I didn't see anything in the news as well. Not sure what's up. K.P. Harrier reported that something had happened on Cajon Pass. See the bottom of the page: http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/120779.aspx?sort=ASC&pi332=1&page=206 But didn't say what. A little early for fire season.
Could be. Although I heard they expected to be speeding things up and reducing backlog now that there was supposedly an agreement?
"Something happened..." Would be interesting to know specifically. M-O-W delay? An incident of some type?
I'm quite sure it's related to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach backup. I also heard of empty container car movements around City of Industry today so it might be some of those.
The more I think about it the more I think it’s related to the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach backup especially with all the empty Auto Rack Cars. I don't see that much and I can’t tell if the containers are empty, but I bet they are. [FONT=&]I might be driving there again today if I get the parts needed for a repair job I’m working on out that way and it will be interesting to see what’s going on today. [/FONT]
This might be the answer we are looking for: http://abc7.com/news/hazmat-team-responds-to-semi-crash-on-15-north-in-cajon-pass/540578/
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