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Posted by smitty195 (Member # 5102) on :

Here are two kinda scary videos that show why both trains 7 and 8 are annuled (and detoured) through North Dakota. High winds are throwing waves up onto the tracks in the Devils Lake region.

Here are the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aSI3e_xjx4

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HCbdExcCc

The 2nd video looks downright frightening to me.

Posted by notelvis (Member # 3071) on :

Wow -

Been reading lot's of articles about Devil's Lake and the increasing liklihood of a permanent Amtrak reroute.....

These two videos are worth about 40,000 written words.

Posted by smitty195 (Member # 5102) on :

I never knew about the problems with Devils Lake until this incident that involved Amtrak's schedule. I did some digging in local news articles, and apparently this is a problem that has been developing for several years. What a nightmare it has become!

Posted by Judy McFarland (Member # 4435) on :

Thanks for posting the link to these scary videos!