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Posted: 8/3/2011 12:56:08 PM EDT

Posted: 8/3/2011 12:57:28 PM EDT

[#1]

yow...

Posted: 8/3/2011 1:01:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Hokay...I don't know much about trains, but that's going to be an awfully interesting ride for folks on the AMTRAK.

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:27:24 PM EDT

[#3]

Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:35:10 PM EDT

[#4]

Looks fake to me.

I'm having a hard time believing that pic is real.

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:35:26 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Can't they just use a really fast train instead?

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:40:39 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Looks fake to me.

I'm having a hard time believing that pic is real.

It's the heat waves making everything all wobbly - like a meer-ah-jay.

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:40:54 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Can't they just use a really fast train instead?

Sure.

Once.

Posted: 8/3/2011 6:52:17 PM EDT

[#8]

Why only one set of the tracks? Why are the 'waves' equal?

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:10:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Possible, looked at some others in that file and saw this one:

That shows lateral movement. Maybe newly laid track that has gotten worse?

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:15:42 PM EDT

[#10]

This looks more like a traditional kink

Telephoto compression of course exaggerates the appearance...

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:16:19 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Possible, looked at some others in that file and saw this one:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Red04StangGT/Work%20Pictures/image003.jpg

That shows lateral movement. Maybe newly laid track that has gotten worse?

Are you being serious?

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:18:49 PM EDT

[#12]

Callin' BS.

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:21:03 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Possible, looked at some others in that file and saw this one:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Red04StangGT/Work%20Pictures/image003.jpg

That shows lateral movement. Maybe newly laid track that has gotten worse?

Are you being serious?

What else would explain the depressions to the side of the conrete ties?

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:24:59 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

I had no idea such a process ever went on.

I was thinking URFQUAKE! but nothing else in view seems affected. I will accept your answer as the likely truth.

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:26:00 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Possible, looked at some others in that file and saw this one:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Red04StangGT/Work%20Pictures/image003.jpg

That shows lateral movement. Maybe newly laid track that has gotten worse?

Are you being serious?

What else would explain the depressions to the side of the conrete ties?

The machine that picks up the tie and pack the aggregate under them.

Jim

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:28:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
The machine that picks up the tie and pack the aggregate under them.

Jim

That makes sense, thanks for the correction!

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:46:41 PM EDT

[#17]

(Engineer to Conductor) "Hold my beer and watch this!"

Posted: 8/3/2011 7:47:59 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Umm...I hope you are joking. New track is not layed out like this. This is obviously a fake pic.

Posted: 8/3/2011 8:15:19 PM EDT

[#19]

That's where they warm up the train tires for the speed runs.

Posted: 8/3/2011 8:52:31 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:

The machine that picks up the tie and pack the aggregate under them.

Jim

That makes sense, thanks for the correction!

yeah, it looks like the ones in your pic were just laid. I really wasn't sure if you were serious or not. I've always lived near tracks and I know not everyone does.

Posted: 8/3/2011 9:04:24 PM EDT

[#21]

Isn't that some of the high speed rail that Obama was pitching?

Posted: 8/3/2011 9:10:57 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
This looks more like a traditional kink

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Red04StangGT/Work%20Pictures/image007.jpg

Telephoto compression of course exaggerates the appearance...

This is the same place as the other pic op posted. Just a different vantage point and time. This is more believable but I'm still not sure someone wasn't screwing around on photoshop. 1st pic is a fake. You can even see that its the same train on the left. But its the same place in both photos.

Posted: 8/4/2011 12:09:25 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a sun kink.

That's a new, or freshly re-laid section of track. They haven't run the machines over it yet to align it and set it all up.

Look at all the ballast on top of the ties.

Possible, looked at some others in that file and saw this one:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Red04StangGT/Work%20Pictures/image003.jpg

That shows lateral movement. Maybe newly laid track that has gotten worse?

Are you being serious?

What else would explain the depressions to the side of the conrete ties?

How about being shifted laterally by the sun kink/thermal misalignment?

You guys really think newly laid track would look like that? Seriously?