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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:06:11 PM EST
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No salmon, as its a tributary to the Columbia and up river of Chief George. Big sturgeon hatchery in Bonners though.The tribe will not be happy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That's supposed to be a big time salmon trout fishery. Even sturgeon in though from what I see Fish are probably having a worse day but then the flows look pretty high and should dilute the diesel. Are any of them ever happy? |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:06:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Doubt it. At the very least, no way they are going let it sit there and continue to leak fuel and oil into the river. Recovery equipment is undoubtedly already on site and work has begun to clean up the mess and restore service. That isn’t even as bad as it looks. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2117/6DE9DED9-6C4A-47A5-B855-3DB45D6E6756_jpeg-1217747.JPG A couple of sidewinders or a big crane and they will have that thing out of the river in a few hours. Check out the rocks to the side of the coiled feel car. Think they hit boulders or rock slide? ETA: and the "scarring" on the slope above the train too... |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:07:02 PM EST
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Go home, train. You're drunk. 
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:07:34 PM EST
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Who was at the wheel. |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:11:21 PM EST
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That had to be one hell of a ride into the river! Hopefully we can see the playback of the forward facing camera and the inward facing one. Not sure which one will be better!
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:13:50 PM EST
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You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?
You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:14:19 PM EST
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@Boomer Check out the rocks to the side of the coiled feel car. Think they hit boulders or rock slide? ETA: and the "scarring" on the slope above the train too... Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Doubt it. At the very least, no way they are going let it sit there and continue to leak fuel and oil into the river. Recovery equipment is undoubtedly already on site and work has begun to clean up the mess and restore service. That isn’t even as bad as it looks. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2117/6DE9DED9-6C4A-47A5-B855-3DB45D6E6756_jpeg-1217747.JPG A couple of sidewinders or a big crane and they will have that thing out of the river in a few hours. Check out the rocks to the side of the coiled feel car. Think they hit boulders or rock slide? ETA: and the "scarring" on the slope above the train too... 
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:15:27 PM EST
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oops!
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:18:45 PM EST
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That had to be one hell of a ride into the river! Hopefully we can see the playback of the forward facing camera and the inward facing one. Not sure which one will be better! |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:24:24 PM EST
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Well there’s a couple of agencies that have decided to leave two fishing boats in the water that sunk out at my parents community where they live. One sunk about two years ago and the other one this summer. coast guard refused to raise them and haul them away. The owner doesn't have the money to do it. only three or four feet stick out of the water. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?
You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? No way that a locomotive just gets left laying in a river in this country in this day and age. |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 2:53:30 PM EST
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Quote HistoryAll that time and trouble to take a grainy worthless video.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 4:10:39 PM EST
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That may affect someone's next Efficiency Report.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 5:00:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shocking. Are any of them ever happy? |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 5:14:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Casey Jones |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:25:28 PM EST
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Looks like a water diversion structure if not a dam. Hope they got a permit from the Corps of Engineers.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:32:49 PM EST
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Silly train, you are not a boat. Old GE U-Boat 
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:50:46 PM EST
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BNSF has crews out working the tracks damn near 365 days a year, but they run through some spectacularly rugged country and unfortunately most follow the rivers (and by extension the lakes). Ecology probably wasn't the top driver when they started built them, but it's got to keep a lot of RR execs up at night now.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 10:45:18 PM EST
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Trainy McBoatface.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 10:47:36 PM EST
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Train people are weird. (I'm not either... I just love that meme. ) |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 10:50:05 PM EST
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Shocking. Are any of them ever happy? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That's supposed to be a big time salmon trout fishery. Even sturgeon in though from what I see Fish are probably having a worse day but then the flows look pretty high and should dilute the diesel. Are any of them ever happy?  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 12:11:55 AM EST
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Still doesn’t explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It’s a dumb and weird name. were SP subsidiaries.) From Lee "Railgoat" Gautreaux: "Freaked Out Altogether Mentally Incompetent Train Enthusiast Foamite was also the brand name of an anti-foaming additive used in steam locomotive water. Goat" |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 12:27:06 AM EST
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Still doesn’t explain why the name foamer. Is it because they jizz their pants every time they see a train? It’s a dumb and weird name. |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 5:45:41 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably both. Looks to me like they hit a rock slide with boulders in it. Sort of a glancing blow that diverted the locomotives down the embankment and into the river. Given that most of the the train appears to be on the rail and not all stacked up, it seems like it happened at a fairly low speed, too. I can’t tell if there is a slide fence along that track. Hope this doesn’t turn out to be yet another restricted speed violation. |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 5:51:46 AM EST
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Article says Only Accessible by Train or Boat, yet the picture shows a truck door open at the scene.
Nice |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 6:05:31 AM EST
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Well it could have been some 737's that jumped the track https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d02339c2500006813e3cc3d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale Derailment into a river must be scary - especially if it happens in the dark. |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 6:07:09 AM EST
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Article says Only Accessible by Train or Boat, yet the picture shows a truck door open at the scene. Nice |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 6:10:36 AM EST
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It's a railroad pickup? They pick the tires up and drive on the tracks. Do you see a road in any of those pictures? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Article says Only Accessible by Train or Boat, yet the picture shows a truck door open at the scene. Nice |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 6:13:59 AM EST
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The railroads have way deeper pockets, a way higher profile, probably stricter regulatory oversight and legions of critics, detractors and enemies. Those boats probably don’t have the same quantities of fuel and lubricants on board, either. No way that a locomotive just gets left laying in a river in this country in this day and age. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?
You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? No way that a locomotive just gets left laying in a river in this country in this day and age. Kharn |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 10:45:59 AM EST
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Did you not prove my point while attempting to argue? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Article says Only Accessible by Train or Boat, yet the picture shows a truck door open at the scene. Nice ETA, and no, he did not. |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 12:30:58 PM EST
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You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Didn't this happen a few years ago in the same river and the wound up just leaving the train there?
You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 12:33:04 PM EST
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It's a railroad pickup? They pick the tires up and drive on the tracks. Do you see a road in any of those pictures? |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 1:19:59 PM EST
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No they don't ............ they put the flanged wheels down on the rails and that lifts the entire vehicle so the tires clear the rails. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's a railroad pickup? They pick the tires up and drive on the tracks. Do you see a road in any of those pictures? Some other hi-rail equipment such as tracked excavators do have hi-rail wheels that provide propulsion and braking. |
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Posted: 1/3/2020 3:15:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The tires are actually in contact with the rails and provide traction, motion and braking just like they do in normal driving. This is why you see those goofy looking wheels on hi-rail trucks: They provide a track width that matches the gauge of the railroad track. These vehicles also have steering wheel locks so the front wheels can't be turned out of alignment with the rail when being used in hi-rail mode. The small flanged wheels that lower onto the rails are just guides that keep the vehicle aligned on the tracks. Some other hi-rail equipment such as tracked excavators do have hi-rail wheels that provide propulsion and braking. |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 12:02:22 AM EST
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Well the lead engine has finally been removed from the river. They had to float it to the other side where a pad was constructed upon which the locomotive is being disassembled for scrap.
BNSF lead engine floated flawlessly out of the Kootenai River In a Herculean effort that began at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, January 26, with divers, salvage specialists, BNSF mechanical teams, eight Cats with cables, two stationary winches and other assorted gear, huge floats were inflated along both sides of the locomotive, the engine floated up off the riverbed and it was eased gently across to a beach on the north bank specially prepared with layers of rock and plastic sheeting and placed for salvage by noon.
The good fortune continued today, as the locomotive is already nearly half disassembled.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 12:31:38 AM EST
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I live less than a mile from there. Its been really cool to watch the equipment comming in, you can tell its a big money operation, the 2 winches they brough in on those super heavy lowboy trucks with like 30 wheels. They cut a road in and have been tearing the shit out of the diches on the south side of hwy 2. We had 2 feet of snow 2 weeks ago, but the temps have been it 40's for the last 6 days and the snow is almost gone.
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:06:54 AM EST
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No salmon, as its a tributary to the Columbia and up river of Chief George. Big sturgeon hatchery in Bonners though. The tribe will not be happy. Hells Canyon Dam has no fish ladder so they blocked several thousand miles of salmon habitat when they built that fucker. |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:09:47 AM EST
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Where do you get divers for that kind of job?
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:12:25 AM EST
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Article says Only Accessible by Train or Boat, yet the picture shows a truck door open at the scene. Nice 
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:16:55 AM EST
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Over a BL-2 in the wild... yourgoddamnright.gif |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:26:42 AM EST
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:32:01 AM EST
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Well the lead engine has finally been removed from the river. They had to float it to the other side where a pad was constructed upon which the locomotive is being disassembled for scrap. BNSF lead engine floated flawlessly out of the Kootenai River https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2117/BEF1D5E3-2887-4482-9B66-4EE1AD0AFE65_jpe-1254123.JPG |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:32:26 AM EST
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Well the lead engine has finally been removed from the river. They had to float it to the other side where a pad was constructed upon which the locomotive is being disassembled for scrap. BNSF lead engine floated flawlessly out of the Kootenai River https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/2117/BEF1D5E3-2887-4482-9B66-4EE1AD0AFE65_jpe-1254123.JPG |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:39:38 AM EST
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Quote HistoryHonestly I'm jealous. I wish I was as passionate about something as that guy is about trains. Good for him.
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:45:08 AM EST
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You think that federal and state environmental regulatory agencies would allow that to happen? |
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:46:11 AM EST
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Yeah that was a bad day.
Thanks for all the re-routes, rock slide. 
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Posted: 1/29/2020 2:24:52 AM EST
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 Turn your speakers up!!! General Electric U30C''s up a 1.63% grade in notch 8! 
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Posted: 1/29/2020 6:51:50 AM EST
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Quote HistoryYou don't see many of those in the wild anymore
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:18:23 PM EST
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Thanks to those who provided updates!
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Posted: 1/29/2020 1:26:08 PM EST
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Where's that confounded bridge?
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