Rock Slides | Rocky Mountain Railroad

above the Rocky Mountains or yeah, just a little bit slower area. Roadmaster buyer Nick is exploring the

mountain

s for

rock

s. The problem this time of year is that now all that

rock

that has frozen into that ice has expanded and now everything that got loose is thawing. Lines of rocks falling directly onto the road are major threats and that is why we have implemented measures such as sliding fences. Canadian Pacific engineers have built more than four hundred and fifty meters of special barriers called sliding fences uphill along rail and rockslide-prone areas. A weak electrical current is passed through the fence wires to create a circuit. which is monitored by a sensor any rock that falls from the cliffs and hits the fences and breaks their cables breaking the circuit which triggers an alarm any alert is picked up by rail traffic The control and sensor automatically activate signals along tracks warning train crews to slow down or stop these sliding vents.

It's an important safety tip because that way we're not moving, the trains draw speed toward a potential problem we're on our way back to. Gold Airport has already finished applying the last section of territory you need to guard, so we'll leave it just to the east. The tunnel is more than 100 years old. Geordi and Justin crawled around. They can't make a tunnel. The tunnel is cut in a straight line. through Mount McDonald at least for the moment they are safe from rock

slides

a danger Geordi has experienced first hand I had a rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle everything went well we didn't go off the track you don't really think about it How terrifying is its potential for derailment.

I guess that's just part of the job.