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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Thu Jun 2 22:50:25 2011, in response to Re: Chicago's Tower 18 (Photos), posted by George Foelschow on Thu Jun 2 21:34:20 2011. No, George, no, no, no. Did you read the story. And there is a reason they don't do it every weekend and just eliminate Tower 18. It disrupts the normal way of doing things. But it's not so bad on the one weekend because two sides of the Loop are travelled lightly.Thus this only happened on the weekends where the junction was shutdown for changeover to the new plant. Rather than use all those switchmen, towermen, hand throwing, communicating back an forth, etc, etc,. The Brown was linked with the Orange line and through routed using the Lake ST and Wabash sides of the Loop. The Green used the Wells ST and Van Buren side of the Loop. The Pink line used the Green routing and terminated at Roosevelt and turned in the 14th middle track. The two sets of curved routes at Tower 18 were set for turns and NOTHING crossed any other line. NO SWITCH was thrown the entire weekend. Operators merely paid close attention to their cab signal as view was always obstructed around the curves. Tower 12 at Van Buren and Wabash was manned and sorted out the traffic. If you had to go to the other side of the Loop not served by your rerouted train, you went to Roosevelt and transferred there. For instance a Brown line passenger who wanted off at Quincy Wells had to ride to Roosevelt and transfer to a Green or Pink line train and ride back to Quincy. David |
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