NTSB Issues MRL Derailment Preliminary Report

[2naSalit]

1. Cool! Thanks!

My buddy and I decided to drive over there and look at it. The trains are starting to run again so we had to go look, it's a little over an hour downriver. There were a lot of trains waiting to go east along the way east of Livingston where we met up with the rails. The last time I saw that many heavy cranes in one place was a shipyard. From the looks of the staging locations along the road they were working 24/7 on that. It's a major rail route and things have been stacked up all this time. Much of the priority freight ran up on the "highline" route in northern Montana but there was a derailment up by Havre Sunday, I think, so that has put a lot of stress on the network and the southern route in particular. I bet some rerouting from the west coast is running south of Montana. it's kind of like when that freighter got stuck in the Suez Canal.