05-07-2016, 01:29 PM
Switch gear has been installed at Seagram for the gauntlet track.
Because I'm a mechanical designer, seeing the components in these mechanisms excites me.
The cylindrical device on the right is a floating coupling or moment compensator, like a FESTO FK-..., and is used to take up small misalignments in moving elements.Work to install a half-crossover in Waterloo Park is ongoing this weekend.
Here, crews are preparing to lift the movable frog chunk of the switch onto the line. This switch is for freight only, to move from the SB track to the NB track for a moment before heading East along its dedicated line out of Waterloo.
Lifting the biggest chunk, with the Perimeter Institute in the background.