(12-03-2016, 07:35 PM)Canard Wrote: Crossover installation? Will have to take a look!

• OCS work is still continuing on King/Northfield
  
• Trail crossing are complete along the Waterloo Spur at Albert McCormic Arena and Quiet Place
  
• Tracks at the Seagram platform are getting an anticorrosion treatment installed (remove rail clips, lift rail, coat, dry, re-attach)
  
• King in UpTown Waterloo is open!
  
• Some of those aggressive curb starts along the central rapidway along King have been marked with cones.
  
• Track lubricators at Union are hooked up, but just sitting there without an enclosure
  
• King St. Grade Separation is coming along great, with some curbs and paving having been completed
  
• The embedded track curve from Borden onto the Huron Spur is curing
  
• Hayward is a flurry of activity (even today), with the track curve between Hayward/Courtland complete and curing, and track crews working at the interface to the Huron Spur
  
• Track installation is continuing along Courtland (today)
  
• Track installation & welding is occurring at Wilson (today)
  
• And, since we all blinked, crossover installation is already well underway at Fairway
  

OCS installation continues at Conestoga.

   

   
Driver's facilities.

   
The trail crossing at Albert McCormic arena is now paved, and more-or-less complete.

   
I think this crew just South of here was working on the trail crossing at Quiet Place.

This crossover is between Albert McCormic Arena and the OMSF (just South of Weber).

   
Still not a fan of the R&T Park station entrance with those ugly fences.  I really hope one of those grand art pieces ends up going here, along with lots and lots of trees.

   
There's a huge stack of rail booting here, the same type we've seen where asphalt goes down.  This will be for the walkway to get to the platform.

   
One of my favourite sections of the line - because it's the fastest!  Here you can also see the 300 mm stagger back-and-forth that the contact wire makes, so it doesn't wear a groove in the pantograph of the train.

   
R&T Park station.

The entrance to the Seagram station now has a paved trail from the adjacent (new) parking lot. It's a shame the new green space has been destroyed already.

   
Rail treatment work; same as we saw at R&T Park and University, crews have un-clipped the rails and jacked them up, and applied a black coating on them.  I assume it's gotten cold enough now that they can't just let them air-dry, so the warmers and tarps are out.

   
UpTown Waterloo is now open.

   
Lots of "No Stopping" signs here.

   

A whole whackload of new signage.

   
Embedded curve from King onto the Waterloo Spur.

   

   
Future Waterloo Town Centre station area.

   
As others noted - the old cobblestone path through these two buildings has now been paved wall-to-wall.  Surprised, but very happy to see, as I'm a frequent user of the Spur Line and Laurel trail.

Waterloo Town Centre station area.

   
Even though I'm still primarily a motorist, I still can't help but think these very few spaces along King could have been better used as bike lanes.  There are hundreds of spots just the other side of the building - did the extra ~10 spots on King really make that much of an improvement?

   
The lubricators on King at Union are now connected... but still just sitting there.  I would have expected they would be installed inside an enclosure, or the cables would be protected... I'm thinking this is all temporary, but curious what the final solution will look like. (The hatch on top is where you refill them, the hatch on the side gives access to the pump and battery, and yes, I read the manual for them )

   
King St. Grade Separation.  Paving was being done on Friday here, I believe. Also, note the railings on the railway bridge/platforms!

   
Looking North on King, near Wellington.

No idea when this happened, but boom - suddenly, crossover!

   
This crossover is a normal sized one (No. 8) - the one at Conestoga is compressed (No. 5) due to space restrictions.

   
A&B Rail Crews were out working today just past the Wilson Ave. level crossing.

(12-04-2016, 01:16 PM)Canard Wrote: Even though I'm still primarily a motorist, I still can't help but think these very few spaces along King could have been better used as bike lanes.  There are hundreds of spots just the other side of the building - did the extra ~10 spots on King really make that much of an improvement?

(12-04-2016, 01:17 PM)Canard Wrote: This crossover is a normal sized one (No. 8) - the one at Conestoga is compressed (No. 5) due to space restrictions.

(12-04-2016, 02:47 PM)KevinL Wrote: Will this be embedded, or clipped to concrete like the Conestoga arrangement?

(12-04-2016, 02:50 PM)urbd Wrote: We need to find out if those pine trees are meant to be permanent for the strip between Willis and William... I just really hope they're not intending them to be topiaries, that would be horrible!

(12-04-2016, 02:47 PM)KevinL Wrote:

(12-04-2016, 01:16 PM)Canard Wrote: Even though I'm still primarily a motorist, I still can't help but think these very few spaces along King could have been better used as bike lanes.  There are hundreds of spots just the other side of the building - did the extra ~10 spots on King really make that much of an improvement?

The local merchants are very protective of street parking - they were annoyed enough with the spots on the other side going away. Keeping these became a requirement.

(12-02-2016, 04:33 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: They are installing some temporary, green, construction fencing to the outsides of the Weber overpass near the OMSF today. I guess they don't want anybody getting silly ideas about messing with the messenger wire and other silly ideas. It is actually pretty amazing how close the wiring looks to the bottom of the overpass from the top of that overpass. I wonder what the permanent solution is going to be.