Working rail roads and their tracks.

[scaredychicken]

Due to recent Rain, Flooding, Washouts, and Mudslides, many regions and highways in British Columbia Canada are currently under a state of emergency with evacuation orders (in one or two cases, entire towns / cities). We are not in any immediate danger where we are, however travel is very restricted or impossible.

It was a difficult Summer with the Wildfires just a few short months ago, and now this wetness.

Here is a photo taken yesterday, on the main Coquihalla Highway / Trans - Canada through the mountains. YIKES

the railroad is normally well above the highway. We do this drive several times each year.

Stay Safe everyone.

We had a beautiful day today.

CK

 

[Hay Dude]

The Route of the Hiawatha Scenic Bike Trail (Official Website)

www.ridethehiawatha.com

This is close to me and I ride it every summer, sometimes twice. It’s said to be the best scenic bike trail in the USA. The 15 mile trail has 7 sky high trestles and 10 tunnels with one straddling the Idaho & Montana border and is 1.66 miles long! Breathtaking every time I go!

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Amazing! I wonder if we could even build something like that anymore with the entire generations of welders, steel erectors, and train/track building companies mostly now done by foreign countries?
Almost worth a trip across the country to enjoy that!
The video alone was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Must have made an amazing train ride….

 

[MossRoad]

Steel Dynamics has a huge structural steel and rail mill in Columbia City, IN. Amazing place making miles and miles of rail every year along with structural steel.

 

[MossRoad]

Due to recent Rain, Flooding, Washouts, and Mudslides, many regions and highways in British Columbia Canada are currently under a state of emergency with evacuation orders (in one or two cases, entire towns / cities). We are not in any immediate danger where we are, however travel is very restricted or impossible.

It was a difficult Summer with the Wildfires just a few short months ago, and now this wetness.

Here is a photo taken yesterday, on the main Coquihalla Highway / Trans - Canada through the mountains. YIKES

View attachment 721264 the railroad is normally well above the highway. We do this drive several times each year.

Stay Safe everyone.

We had a beautiful day today.

CK

I read a story last night that Vancouver is now cut off from the rest of the world by road. Only water and air access.

 

[ArlyA]

Steel Dynamics has a huge structural steel and rail mill in Columbia City, IN. Amazing place making miles and miles of rail every year along with structural steel.

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I believe I seen some Columbia rails when I was cutting up old rails at my work.

 

[Hay Dude]

Steel Dynamics has a huge structural steel and rail mill in Columbia City, IN. Amazing place making miles and miles of rail every year along with structural steel.

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Wonder how long it’ll be before they can’t meet stricter emissions standards and have to close

 

[5030]

Wonder how long it’ll be before they can’t meet stricter emissions standards and have to close

Bussey stays on top of emissions standards (He's the CEO btw). Don't see that happening. Steel Dynamics plants are state of the art in process and emissions. My old employer has one of their facilities located adjacent to the flat rolled mill in Butler, Indiana. That way, transportation costs are mitigated and profit is maximized.

 

[5030]

Steel Dynamics has a huge structural steel and rail mill in Columbia City, IN. Amazing place making miles and miles of rail every year along with structural steel.

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You do know what the initial primary motivator for SDI to locate in Indiana was?

 

[RobS]

Steel Dynamics has a huge structural steel and rail mill in Columbia City, IN. Amazing place making miles and miles of rail every year along with structural steel.

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We buy a lot of steel from them, I've toured their mill a couple of times. Pretty cool place. 2 electric melt furnaces. The scale of the facility is hard to comprehend.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

This is close to me and I ride it every summer, sometimes twice. It’s said to be the best scenic bike trail in the USA. The 15 mile trail has 7 sky high trestles and 10 tunnels with one straddling the Idaho & Montana border and is 1.66 miles long! Breathtaking every time I go!

I haven't ridden much in the past few years, but that looks like an interesting ride. I'll be 71 next summer and rail grades are usually pretty easy riding, although a 30 mile round trip might be a bit much, but it would be fun to try. Although when I was in riding shape, distance wasn't that big of a deal as long as I was fueled and hydrated. Rode a metric century the week of my 60th birthday just to say I did it.