11-12-2019, 09:34 PM
(11-12-2019, 09:06 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(11-12-2019, 03:33 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: That being said, a lot of this also relates to poor planning, they couldn't run S/B trains, because they'd have run out of trains (even at ever 15 minutes, all the trains would be south of DTK within about 2-3 hours). What *SHOULD* have been done is the appropriate switches in place to allow trains to reach Central station and reverse, OR switch the NB trains onto the SB tracks to go around DTK. We knew DTK would be a hot spot for closures, that should have been part of the design.
What is weird is that the system is capable of running in reverse, as we saw during testing. The problem is that the crossovers don’t exist for convenient reverse-running (except for the spur line segment with the freight traffic).
I know that trains *can* run reverse, but the crossovers don't exist to allow it to be used in service, then it doesn't have that ability...I have no idea why they didn't think of this.