Broken "trash rack": The GreatRails North American Railroad Photo Archive

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Broken "trash rack"

After heavy rains in December of 2023, the "trash racks" built from old rail aside the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel failed from massive amounts of rain, rock and debris.

Photographed by Ryan Trela, February 4, 2024.
Added to the photo archive by Ryan Trela, December 19, 2024.
Railroad: Pan Am Southern.

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I'm guessing it was the huge chunks of ice that break up in the Spring and ram their way downstream, that destroyed those grates .

Posted by Allan Lovering on 2024-12-19 17:20:42

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