montana mike
Conductor
Below 32F is below freezing
Damn the Standard Units confusionNW probably meant "below zero", not "below freezing".
I too, hope for rail service in TN and KY! Preferably all the way down the I-81 corridor, from Harrisburg, PA, through VA to eastern TN! From where I sit in western NC, I can just about see the TN border across the Spring Creek valley. Or could if it weren't snowing so hard right now.Damn the Standard Units confusionNW probably meant "below zero", not "below freezing".
Saturday 0400 CDT was above freezing was 33F 0C
Now - too cold to think about -- -21F -29C and wind chill is -46°F (-43°C)
What worries me is not the cold - we MT, ND, MN, WI, north IL. MI are used to this.
The border states - southern IL, OH. WV, and Kentucky, Tennessee that have no Amtrak service -- and will be freezing their tails off -
"what? gramps? you say a water line can freeze solid? Naah!
Not really Amtrak related - but - hoping for rail service in Tennessee and Kentucky - and hoping this "big freeze" kills as few people as can in the unprepared border states.
Yeah - sorry if my post implied that border states people have no clue about weather - how stupid would that be -- or that us "Northern honcho winter masters" are the only people that have a clue about weather.I too, hope for rail service in TN and KY! Preferably all the way down the I-81 corridor, from Harrisburg, PA, through VA to eastern TN! From where I sit in western NC, I can just about see the TN border across the Spring Creek valley. Or could if it weren't snowing so hard right now.Damn the Standard Units confusionNW probably meant "below zero", not "below freezing".
Saturday 0400 CDT was above freezing was 33F 0C
Now - too cold to think about -- -21F -29C and wind chill is -46°F (-43°C)
What worries me is not the cold - we MT, ND, MN, WI, north IL. MI are used to this.
The border states - southern IL, OH. WV, and Kentucky, Tennessee that have no Amtrak service -- and will be freezing their tails off -
"what? gramps? you say a water line can freeze solid? Naah!
Not really Amtrak related - but - hoping for rail service in Tennessee and Kentucky - and hoping this "big freeze" kills as few people as can in the unprepared border states.
As for "unprepared": Here in the border states, those of us living in so-called primitive conditions, with limited modern "conveniences," are perhaps BEST prepared to cope with the weather we're having this week.
For example: We heat with wood, and have plenty of firewood stacked up, ready for me to feed into the woodstove. Electricity? We're a mile from the nearest power lines ... and our PV panels will do just fine once the sun comes out tomorrow; until then, we've got a generator for back-up.
Our iffiest infrastructure is water: friends from Maine and Michigan laugh at our spring-fed system, with pipes barely buried, and a short length actually exposed to open air where the spring pools. Works fine for us nearly all the time. Remains to be seen how our usual cold-weather workaround will work at MINUS 4 (which definitely calls for all CAPS hereabouts). When that exposed bit of pipe freezes, we usually run a spare length from spring to underground water tank, fill tank, disconnect and drain pipe ... and repeat daily as needed. We're not at all sure that spare won't freeze solid this week--it's never been this cold here! In any case, I've got MANY gallons of water stockpiled inside the house, in case needed.
More detail than y'all probably need on a train-oriented forum. But since this thread seems to be primarily about weather (and not the only thread here where trains are only semi-related ) I thought a post about how some of us in the southern mountains are coping with the weather wouldn't be too out of place. Aside from some grumbling about "if I wanted to live in the North, I'd move there," so far so good.
"Normal" normal or "Massive trafficjams and delays" normal?According to my MT BNSF contacts BNSF is running a "close to normal" schedule of freight movements today on the Hi-Line.
Well, the latter seems to be the new normal, so..."Normal" normal or "Massive trafficjams and delays" normal?According to my MT BNSF contacts BNSF is running a "close to normal" schedule of freight movements today on the Hi-Line.
))"Normal" normal or "Massive trafficjams and delays" normal?According to my MT BNSF contacts BNSF is running a "close to normal" schedule of freight movements today on the Hi-Line.
No bugs out here right now. ^_^"If I wanted to live in the South" with all the damned bugs --
yeah yeah.
I would hope Amtrak and the Hosts have switched over to Winterized DieselAlso, per fuel freezing at -10F? It's currently -9.8F in CHI. I suspect some fuel may be freezing.
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