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another point of view: Re: B&O/SEPTA Route 11 Darby crossing |
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Posted by chuchubob on Thu Nov 8 20:04:13 2007, in response to PHOTOS: B&O/SEPTA Route 11 Darby crossing, posted by chuchubob on Tue Nov 6 21:55:44 2007. This from a highly respected transit professional:CSX finally has joined the last century. They're getting there. This crossing should always have been an "OWLS" crossing. Current RR industry term meaning One Way Low Speed - (a new discovery for the RR industry) Always in Europe this is how such crossings are built - with the main-line tracks continuous and the streetcars running on their flanges - which is a standard practice on special work in Europe. and has been since almost the beginning. Ed Springer says that when the B&O built to Philadelphia, the PRT signed an agreement with the RR to split the cost. Don't know why they would have done that, as the streetcar had been there 20-30 years or so by then. If true, then the dumb designs put there for a century or so that never lasted over 10 years would have been designs agreeable to PRT, PTC, and then INEPTA. Dumb, but then there has never been anything particularly imaginative about PRT or PTC track-wise before the 30s, and that disappeared when NCL took over. Let alone INEPTA or the RR. |
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