02-19-2018, 08:26 PM
(02-19-2018, 04:11 PM)Canard Wrote: They don’t though. They’re now holding up LRV delivery!
(02-19-2018, 02:37 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: given that the crossovers are not designed to make opposite-direction running convenient (except on the Spur Line of course).
ijmorlan: the Spur half-crossovers are the exact same trailing point configuration as the two urban ones. There is no added convenience.
Not the one just south of Northfield. I mean immediately south of the platform. And the reason for it is that single-track operation is planned late at night. So by “on the Spur Line” I mean that the single-track operation will be on the Spur Line. Southbound traffic will use the facing-point crossover to get onto the northbound track, and stay there until near Erb and Caroline, where the “wrong way” traffic returns to the southbound track the normal trailing-point crossover.
You know this, but for the benefit of anybody who sees the track configuration near Erb and Caroline and wonders, there is a “facing-point” crossover also, but I understand it is only for the freight train and only has temporary overhead wire installed for testing.