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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 19 October 2015 - 10:00 AM

Progressive Railroading, 10/19/15:

 


Washington DOT nears completion of landslide mitigation projects

 

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is close to wrapping up a multi-year project begun in 2012 to prevent landslides and rail-service disruptions along the Amtrak Cascades corridor.

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Posted 25 November 2015 - 05:56 PM

KING-TV Seattle, WA 11/24:

 

BNSF completes landslide prevention walls near Everett

 

EVERETT, Wash. -- Work is being finalized on a project aimed at protecting North Sound railroad tracks from landslides. More than $16 million of federal money is being spent to get the job done.

 

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) has completed three catchment walls and a retaining wall between Mukilteo and Everett. The hope is to prevent loads of soil, and rocks from crashing onto train tracks in the area.

 

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Roughly 90 percent of all the slides in the Pacific Northwest in the past four years have happened in this area of concern,  .  .  .

 

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