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- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bony1!billg
- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Unusual Trackage (Was: Unusual tunnels?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.150513.15529@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <Bz2rM7.4tL@vcd.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 15:05:13 GMT
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- Besides "spirals" (or helixes) what other unusual track arrangements are
- worth mention? Two come readily to my mind, both on the CNJ.
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- 1) At Elizabethport, the CNJ had a "Grand Four" (as a fellow from the
- midwest called it). Two lines intersecting (at 90 degrees in this case)
- with tracks connecting adjacent "arms". A train approaching the
- diamonds on any of the four arms can proceed straight, left or right.
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- While many intersections have connecting tracks, I can't think of any
- others which have all four (although I'm sure they are out there and now
- that I've started the topic, others with knowledge of such arrangements
- will volunteer that info =B^] ).
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- 2) At Bay Head on the NY&LB ( CNJ/PRR 50/50 ) there was a reversing loop
- so that power did not have to be run arround the train.
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- More well known is the reversing loop under Grand Central Station (NYC).
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- From maps, there appears to have been a reversing loop at Harmon, NY on
- the NYC, however I don't recall seeing one there. There seems to be
- some evidence that one existed just north of the shops. Anyone know
- when this was removed?
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- I seem to recall that maps may also indicate a loop at Sunnyside Yard.
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