Local train crossings blocked, all trains stopped nation-wide

I'm out in the boonies but there's two train tracks down the road, no more than a 2 minute 4-wheeler drive away. If I get the chance I'll go check. Next train doesn't come through until 3:30 though...

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"I don't know if it's a system failure or what, but it seems pretty large-scale," Gonzalez said.

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Looking at a crossing as I type this.. crossing is both passenger and freight traffic... (NJ) and all is well. Cars moving in both directions. Passenger line just came through moments ago.

Broken Arrow?

Canadian Rail is on strike. Most freight services are down in Canada.

CSX and Norfolk Souther at least utilize a Master Control Center that controls ALL trains in their network. Both of those systems also have a Backup Control Center located in an entirely different location in case the Master Control Center goes off line or goes down.

IF both of those Centers lose the ability to run the system there are standardized shutdown procedures for all moving stock across the many thousands of miles of their system.

I would assume in this day and age ALL of the major train companies are run the same way, a centralized Master Control Center with a Backup Control Center located in an entirely different location.

One outside problem that has caused partial shutdowns to occur is if one company's computers stop talking to another company's computers. That could be caused by computer problems or fiber optic line problems. WHEN that happens all trackage where the two systems operate simultaneously for the lines where their trackages cross would most likely be automatically shut down. In my area we have a number of line crosses between the different RR companies and the train crossing points have to be coordinated between the two companies to avoid any problems ... I have personally seen trains held, while running, for up to 12 hours on those lines, with a van bringing out a replacement engine crew because the wait ends up being so long.

Recently I did see a major problem with a CSX train and Norfolk Southern train. Some screw up in the computer sytstems allowed both to be on the same track at the same time heading towards each other (multiple major river bridges involved) ... and they ended up stopped on a bridge nose to nose about 20 feet apart!!! I imagine the engineers on both of those locomotives were shitting their pants when they saw another freight train heading straight towards them on the same track!!

Of course with both of those trains then stopped, right on a bridge, in a place which was a switching hub with tracks going off in multiple directions on all sides of the multiple bridges, I imangine both systems ended up with track stoppages going up line hundreds of miles in all directions. No damage ... but a nightmare to sort out and get trains running through the system again.

Someone using rail rockets? Rockets on railroad lines, they ride the rails until they hit something.

MI has a large Muslim population. Connection?

i just entered the entertaining train and was pained that this thread was derailed by an insane train of false applicable games.

MI has a large Muslim population. Connection?

Strange to me the Michigan State University Police was involved.

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"I don't know if it's a system failure or what, but it seems pretty large-scale," Gonzalez said.

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