Richard320 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Saturday night/Sunday morning 20/2 thereabouts, there was a derailment and quite a fire inside the tunnel at the Tehachapi Loop itself. A tank car fullof Ethanol burned itself out. Needless to say, that line is closed for the moment, all traffic is rerouted. Most of it will likely go through Los Angeles and up the UP coast line. So if anyone had plans, you'll need to adjust them. Video Myself - I'm off today (Monday) so I think I'll make the drive over to Cajon Pass - there ought to be a lot of rail traffic! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted February 23, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2010 That's quite a blaze. I was only there in January and stood near where the photos were taken. I would imagine that the UP traffic from the South will go up through Denver and over Donner, the coast route is single track for a lot of the way and will not have much capacity. However Cuesta Grade should be fun with helpers from San Luis Obispo. At least Cajon has the capacity now that it's all 3 tracked. Just on the subject of the fire, when I was there I was talking to the foreman of a UP track gang who had just replaced the rail where the fire was. He said that the rail onlhy lasts a year but it looks like he will be back earlier than he expected to replace it again. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelmaker87 Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Saturday night/Sunday morning 20/2 thereabouts, there was a derailment and quite a fire inside the tunnel at the Tehachapi Loop itself. A tank car fullof Ethanol burned itself out. Needless to say, that line is closed for the moment, all traffic is rerouted. Most of it will likely go through Los Angeles and up the UP coast line. So if anyone had plans, you'll need to adjust them. Myself - I'm off today (Monday) so I think I'll make the drive over to Cajon Pass - there ought to be a lot of rail traffic! Hi Richard, I see Hulcher did their usual trick and got the trains running over Tehachapi again this past Monday. Those boys are amazing what they can do. Evidently the DPU lost radio contact with the head end power. It, the DPU, kept pushing and derailed a bunch of tank cars amongst others. The fires started at the denatured alcohol car which spread to two plastic pellet loaded cov hops, they caught fire and melted everything, ties and all got burnt up. Cheers, Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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