Kind of dating myself, but when I was a kid, the D&H railroad was still running steam. In Albany the the D&H yard was the Kenwood yard, and when the trains came up out of the Hudson Valley along the Normanskill river and through Elsmere, Delmar, and Slingerlands, they were really pounding on the drivers, not like the relatively smooth diesels that came in shortly thereafter, and when those double heads pounded, the ground shook enough that plates in the cupboard rattled, and that was an old house about a quarter mile from the nearest approach of the tracks.Keith B wrote:I lived within 2 blocks of a switch yard growing up and had several relatives that worked for MoPac railroad. It all depends on the type of train, engine, speed, etc. The biggest hit and shake (not counting when the boxcar full of military munitions blew up 25 miles away down the tracks) was when they would couple cars in the switch yard, which felt about like a 3 -3.5 two blocks away in the house.Dave2 wrote:My off-the-cuff guess is high-2s to mid-3s. <JeremyClarkson>To find out, I went to wikipedia.</JeremyClarkson> (I think I've been watching too much Top Gear again...)raptor wrote:I used to live near train tracks. I wonder what that rumble would register on the Richter scale.
As to the explosion, it blew windows out of the houses within a mile of the train, and we felt it shake our house like about a 4.0 from 25 miles away. Was in the middle of the night, so was quiet and nothing else moving around the area or in the switch yard.
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- Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:38 pm
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- Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:04 am
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One of the things our engineering group used to do at least once a week, was wander over to the state museum and check the seismometers.
That's the NY State Museum in Albany NY!
Some of us were always aware that the Hudson Valley is an ancient fault line, and that earthquakes happen wherever they want to.
That's the NY State Museum in Albany NY!
Some of us were always aware that the Hudson Valley is an ancient fault line, and that earthquakes happen wherever they want to.