Did you read what I wrote?

Remember the miles of Union Pacific locomotives sidelined? This is part of the reason...

It's amazing the space those things take up. 50 miles!

That's like the calculated length of the lines to vote with social distancing in Wisconsin.

or at least some small fraction thereof.

Bruce: If you were talking to me, yes.
If you were talking to someone else, the answer is still yes.
I also had trouble with the wide screen and I am afraid it deterred me from reading the whole thing.

Yes you, I mentioned the information was from your link. Pain in the ass that it was I still got quite a bit from it, just took awhile. I'm pretty sure the OP and the similar view above were taken with a 130mm lens from the locomotive shown in the reverse direction pictures. The people insisting photoshop were pretty much shut down by people who were there. Much of the rail shape was not from shaking back and forth like I thought, but by the track securely fastened at two ends being compressed so they had to remove 9 meters of track.

After all that, rake some gravel and splice in two 30 foot sections of rail. Piece of cake.
I first read 9m as miles, but figured that was for the whole event.

This is about trains.
I don't recommend it, but thanks to TYWKIWDBI anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NvK...ature=youtu.be

That was awesome!

That's not what a train horn sounds like.:mad2:

Firetruck on rails...

The pumps on that truck are *entirely* adequate. But I wonder where the water supply is, probably in a tanker car or cars somewhere behind.

I wondered that also, those three would go through a shitload of water in just a few minutes.
And fighting forest fires a few minutes rarely does the job.

That rig was Fred Weyerhaeuser's idea.

Looks like they're pre-soaking to prevent a fire from reaching the railroad, rather than putting out active fires.

Or just showing off with three hoses going full blast and mostly up.