We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Truckers were busy last week hauling damaged rail cargo containers to be cut up for scrap. These loaded trucks, stopped at the Town Pump in Chinook, were eastbound for Great Falls. About 160 of the containers, which were empty, were blown off the tracks during a severe wind event that occurred east of Malta last weekend.
Saturday evening, June 28, estimated "75 to 100 mph winds" wreaked havoc with an eastbound freight train near the Bowdoin area, between Malta and Saco. Even though the train was stopped as a safety precaution, the winds overturned a number of railroad cars carrying intermodal cargo containers. About 160 of the cargo units were thrown near the tracks during the storm. After work by an outside derailment service and BNSF employees, traffic was restored around 2 pm on the Sunday after the windstorm.
Ross Lane, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Portland-based Director of Public Affairs, reported...
