Railroad fixed the culvert

[jon f mn]

Looks like the rr was good to their word, mostly. If you remember the plugged the culvert and flooded my land.

They originally said the would send out pumps to pump the water and then come out on the 28th to fix the culvert. They never did send the pumps, but they did come fix the culvert yesterday, just one day late.

The water is mostly gone now. They did say it took a lot longer than expected because so much water was running out. Don't know what they expected with 5-6' of water over around 10 acres backed up. Lol. Anyway, that problem is solved and looks like they did a nice job of it. Now if they pay the damage as quickly I'll be happy.

 

[Tgrasher]

Good to hear the issue is "mostly" resolved, you may want to talk to the same person again and thank them for their quick action and remind them of the damages you incurred. Squeaky wheels get the grease.

 

[JMOR]

Looks like they need to come back and drive the rails in !

 

[Scott 730]

So, what was the process to place a new culvert under the railbed?? Some kind of boring machine?

 

[jon f mn]

So, what was the process to place a new culvert under the railbed?? Some kind of boring machine?

They just send a track hoe that ran down the tracks and dug out under the tracks. They left the tracks hang and put the new culvert under then filled in again. They never cut the tracks.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

That’s not too bad. Depending on the pumps and where they wanted to put the water that might have been some higher ups plan that might not have been actually feasible. Glad progress was made!

 

[MarkB_MI]

Glad to hear it.

 

[Scott 730]

They just send a track hoe that ran down the tracks and dug out under the tracks. They left the tracks hang and put the new culvert under then filled in again. They never cut the tracks.

Interesting. I would like to see an operation like that. I am curious how they get adequate compaction with the tracks in the way. Looks like it will outlast all of us now!

 

[jaoneill]

You certainly made out better than we did. They did an "improvement" project back in "78, raised the roadbed a bit over 3' and completely eliminated five of the seven 30" culverts that drained a substantial portion of our farm and buried the inlets of the remaining two. After a lengthly battle they finally uncovered the remaining two culverts but the elevation of those two is such that, in the end we lost about seven acres of cropland.

 

[Copperhead don't play]

The RR did the same and backed up water on the ENTIRE mobile home lot that I rented out. The lot was level and was flooded about 6inched deep. Somebody posted a "NO FISHING' sign as a joke.

 

[used red MN]

Glad to hear they fixed it for you nearly within the time frame they stated.