Cleanup Was Always So Much Easier at HO Scale

"user314" (user314) 08/07/2018 at 16:00 • Filed to: Pittsburgh, Trains, Infrastructure, yinzer, I like trains

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Cleanup !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! after Sunday’s derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train lead to a dozen or so containers, as well as the rail cars they sat on, either crashing down onto or dangling above the Port Authority’s T tracks a few hundred feet from the Station Square platform.

Onlookers watched as six of the boxes and three cars were carefully removed from the tracks and hoisted into an adjacent parking lot. Three cars, and the double-stacked containers atop them, remain suspended above the rails as crews survey how to best move them.

Aside from one worker who injured his arm on a cable, there have been no incidents since an excavator came into contact with live wires yesterday, and travel into the city proceeded much smoo ther. Delays were still common, but no where near the 2 hours   plus that saw mobs gather at South Hill Junction Monday morning.

Interestingly, I did get to see the NorSo crews have prefabbed rail and tie assemblies stacked up & ready to go, looking exactly like Lionel train tracks. 

ttyymmnn > user314 08/07/2018 at 16:10

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E90M3 > user314 08/07/2018 at 16:10

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MMMM HO Scale.

user314 > E90M3 08/07/2018 at 16:31

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Nice!

I had, many many moons ago, the Tyco GI Joe Battle Train set.

I’d grab one off eBay, but A: I don’t know where I’d put it, and B: I don’t want to sell the kidney it would probably take to afford a complete set.