Easton & Potomac trackage - red lines

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

More earthquake damage discovered

I had reported earlier that the only damage I found from the earthquake was the movement of one car on the Easton Transfer Company spur in Brooke where this car rolled and fouled the mainline as can be seen in the picture below.



However when the yard crew in White Hall was working today to split the Hood turn in the 1st Hood Turn consisting only of stock cars and the 2nd Hood Turn consisting of all other cars they discovered more damaged from the earthquake. When they coupled onto the cut of cars on ladder track three and started pulling them the cars on ladder track two also started moving. A quick inspection located a shifted load on a flat car that was fouling cars on the adjacent ladder track as seen in the picture below.




Soon after locating this damage the yard crew also noticed, as seen below, the ash loader had fallen over.




So I guess there was more damage from the earthquake than initially thought.



The crews on September 18th will have to be alert!

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