03-23-2023, 04:01 PM
(03-23-2023, 03:08 PM)Bytor Wrote:(03-23-2023, 02:40 PM)cherrypark Wrote: The idling, as well as just the use of that yard at all, has been a regular complaint I've seen from Cherry Park residents near the line. As I recall, that layover facility was supposed to be disused after upgrades to a yard east of Highway 85 but I'm not sure what the reason is for that still being incomplete. Its possible their idling there is to do with keeping power, as others have said, and those facilities not having been added to provide power there could be for the fact they are supposed to be moving on from there?
Just to make sure I understand, "idling all night long" has been a regular complaint? As in literally all all night long, and not for only an hour after the last train parks there in the evening at 11pm-ish. I just want to make sure that "all night" is not merely hyperbole for somebody hearing them at 12:01am
The yard does have wayside power, which is supposed to be used instead of idling the diesel engines,
I could totally see it being the 23:21 train from Toronto was idling until 00:21, and then the person heard the 5:14 train get started up a 4:14 when they got up to pee in the middle of the night, and the complainer is being hyperbolic due to being annoyed.
The trains were not idling all night long at the Cherry St. layby. They might have been idling in the morning, but as a resident I walked past them almost every night and they were shut down and running of...well whatever the train equivalent of shore power is.