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Re: VCRR is falling apart really bad.
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 10-01-2019 - 01:34
ron Wrote:
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> Johnathan Wrote:
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> > Me and my wife walked the VCRR in Oxnard the
> other
> > day and that RR line is falling into great
> > despair. We found between Oxnard blvd and
> Channel
> > Islands Blvd, Tie plates and spikes gone and
> > falling out of the track's rails. Is that from
> > heavy locomotives and tri levels
> > loaded with BMW's and other vehicles causing
> that?
> >
> >
> > A big 6 car derailment happened a few months
> ago
> > past wooley road by the UP shoving cars past
> that
> > crossing and spit a switch and came back
> through
> > and rolled over 6 tri levels on there sides and
> on
> > the ground. Very terrible conditions exist.
> Does
> > the FRA do anything anymore allowing commerce
> to
> > be put in jeopardy?
>
> Are you a qualified track inspector? Do you know
> the track safety standards for class 1 track? The
> minimum non defective crossties in a 39 ft.
> section of track? What constitutes a non
> defective crosstie? Railroad track can look bad to
> the average person and still be legal and safe to
> run trains. How do you and your wife know "very
> terrible conditions exist" if your not qualified
> to inspect track and know basic track safety
> standards part 213? If there was a recent
> reportable derailment caused by defective track
> conditions you can be sure the FRA has inspected
> the track and determined it safe to run trains.
Unless the derailment meets the FRA threshold for a "reportable incident"...I believe currently $11,000, the FRA doesn't get involved. There are NO standards for "excepted track" other than gauge requirements for curves and certain hazmat requirements for bridges over public waterways/highways which I'm not required to deal with on an everyday basis and can't address. Because the track looks bad unless you are trained to identify what you observe as defects it's probably perfectly legal under FRA unless there is wide gauge.
Sammie
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> Johnathan Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Me and my wife walked the VCRR in Oxnard the
> other
> > day and that RR line is falling into great
> > despair. We found between Oxnard blvd and
> Channel
> > Islands Blvd, Tie plates and spikes gone and
> > falling out of the track's rails. Is that from
> > heavy locomotives and tri levels
> > loaded with BMW's and other vehicles causing
> that?
> >
> >
> > A big 6 car derailment happened a few months
> ago
> > past wooley road by the UP shoving cars past
> that
> > crossing and spit a switch and came back
> through
> > and rolled over 6 tri levels on there sides and
> on
> > the ground. Very terrible conditions exist.
> Does
> > the FRA do anything anymore allowing commerce
> to
> > be put in jeopardy?
>
> Are you a qualified track inspector? Do you know
> the track safety standards for class 1 track? The
> minimum non defective crossties in a 39 ft.
> section of track? What constitutes a non
> defective crosstie? Railroad track can look bad to
> the average person and still be legal and safe to
> run trains. How do you and your wife know "very
> terrible conditions exist" if your not qualified
> to inspect track and know basic track safety
> standards part 213? If there was a recent
> reportable derailment caused by defective track
> conditions you can be sure the FRA has inspected
> the track and determined it safe to run trains.
Unless the derailment meets the FRA threshold for a "reportable incident"...I believe currently $11,000, the FRA doesn't get involved. There are NO standards for "excepted track" other than gauge requirements for curves and certain hazmat requirements for bridges over public waterways/highways which I'm not required to deal with on an everyday basis and can't address. Because the track looks bad unless you are trained to identify what you observe as defects it's probably perfectly legal under FRA unless there is wide gauge.
Sammie
