Cascadia
OBS Chief
We had just completed the customs check at the border and as we got underway heading south, I saw quite the assembly parked on the track next to us, facing north.
I am not sure exactly but this is what it seemed like to me,
there were two engines, and two cars that looked like cabooses, crew cars I guess,
then a couple of car lengths of machinery, winches and stuff and lifts and stuff like that,
after that there were multiple car lengths of rail, very long, all bolted together, on flatbed cars but riding in racks, and so long that I couldn't imagine how they could travel anything but an arrow straight track?
then there was a hopper car with some of the plates the rails were bolted together with in it
at the end there was another green caboose looking crew car.
If anyone can describe to me how this all works when they are using it, that would be very interesting. Also does anyone know what project they might have been working on, to be parked at the Canadian border, on the US side at Blaine?
Hope this is okay in the Amtrak forum because I saw it from the window of the 517 Cascades train - I was riding Amtrak even though it isn't a direct Amtrak question!
I am not sure exactly but this is what it seemed like to me,
there were two engines, and two cars that looked like cabooses, crew cars I guess,
then a couple of car lengths of machinery, winches and stuff and lifts and stuff like that,
after that there were multiple car lengths of rail, very long, all bolted together, on flatbed cars but riding in racks, and so long that I couldn't imagine how they could travel anything but an arrow straight track?
then there was a hopper car with some of the plates the rails were bolted together with in it
at the end there was another green caboose looking crew car.
If anyone can describe to me how this all works when they are using it, that would be very interesting. Also does anyone know what project they might have been working on, to be parked at the Canadian border, on the US side at Blaine?
Hope this is okay in the Amtrak forum because I saw it from the window of the 517 Cascades train - I was riding Amtrak even though it isn't a direct Amtrak question!