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daybeers wrote:What's the point of posting all that after the fact?
lordsigma12345 wrote:Does anyone know why they are crossing northbound trains running on track 2 over to track 1 at Elmwood in West Hartford rather than keeping them on track 2 until the end of the double track near the Parkville CTTransit station? Is this permanent or is track work in progress on track 2 north of Elmwood? I have noticed this in every recent train I've been on. It seems that it would make sense to run double track as many miles as possible to reduce the bottle neck at Hartford station. Same thing on the other side of Hartford once double tracking begins to Windsor I would hope the control point for the single track Hartford station would be as close to the station as possible.
JcPinCT wrote:lordsigma12345 wrote:Does anyone know why they are crossing northbound trains running on track 2 over to track 1 at Elmwood in West Hartford rather than keeping them on track 2 until the end of the double track near the Parkville CTTransit station? Is this permanent or is track work in progress on track 2 north of Elmwood? I have noticed this in every recent train I've been on. It seems that it would make sense to run double track as many miles as possible to reduce the bottle neck at Hartford station. Same thing on the other side of Hartford once double tracking begins to Windsor I would hope the control point for the single track Hartford station would be as close to the station as possible.
I was wondering the same thing and surmised the reason was for temporary storage of Amtrak MOW equipment during the rebuild of the second track. That section of track 2 will have to be regularly used when the West Hartford station is built in the next phase of the Hartford Line project. Will be interesting to see if they use that section of track 2 prior to that point.
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