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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by amtraxmaniac: [qb] This would be consistent with the most recent info on UPRR's website: 4 to 6 weeks as of Feb. 15. [/qb][/QUOTE]More optimism than realism. According to a recent discussion on trainorders, the slide is still moving and they had 8 inches of fresh snow over the weekend, stopping work for a day or two. Until the ground stops moving, there can be no finish date given with any certainty. There was also mention of "rumor" of bringing in a pile driver, which may mean they are giving up on restoration into a more or less as-was condition and are planning to bridge the site. This has its own difficulties, as if the slide plane is deep in the ground, and this one apparently is, you have to get the foundation below the slide plane and develop a foundation design that will stop the mountain. An alternate scheme using a pile driver would be to drive enough piles through the slide plane to stitch the ground above the slide plane to the ground below the slide plane and stop it that way. This may or may not work. You may find that a new and lower slide plane develops and an even bigger chunk of mountainside starts moving. There is a potential for "weeks" becoming "months." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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