EJ&ESDM809 wrote:The crossovers in Wheaton will be east of downtown Wheaton, near the college of DuPage.
As reported in the Daily Herald about a year ago, UP has selected the Chase St. crossing in Wheaton (approx. MP24.4) as the location for the new interlocking plant. The plan is to close Chase St. to vehicle traffic and to build a pedestrian tunnel in its place during construction of the crossovers. I originally posted the link to the article that discusses this in page 1 of this thread, but
here it is again, for those just tuning in. And as further information, the nearby college in question is actually Wheaton College, the College of DuPage is further south and east, in Glen Ellyn...
EJ&ESDM809 wrote: I would expect the pedestrian gate enhancements to go in rather soon at that station as the crossovers will be well east of there. I don't think anything would happen at the station itself due to the crossovers.
The pedestrian gate improvements have been installed at the College Ave. and President St. grade crossings in Wheaton, which form the east and west boundaries of the College Ave. station, as it sits between these two crossings. They are also present at the Main St. and Park Blvd. crossings in Glen Ellyn, which brackets the Glen Ellyn depot. (Park Blvd. also has a new intermediate signal bridge there as well, I've read recently how some locals aren't liking it so much). At these crossings, the LED signs that will display the "second train warning" are still covered; meanwhile, no similar upgrades yet at Lombard and Wheaton, and I'm not certain about Villa Park, Elmhurst, & Winfield (though there was some recent construction near the Villa Park depot a few weeks ago, not sure what it was about, I'll take a closer look next time I ride thru). In Lombard's case, they could be going in soon, since UP is pretty well along building the new crossovers, but as for Wheaton, it could be a while yet, since there's been no construction. I'm thinking it probably won't happen until the new interlocking plant goes in, in conjunction with eventual the Chase St. closure and reconfiguration, but that's just a guess.
I'm also keeping an eye out for the new absolute signals that will go up in Lombard after all the crossovers have been installed. Haven't seen any concrete bases yet...
EJ&ESDM809 wrote:I am not sure where the crossovers in Lombard are going to be, I thought I heard east of the station in that case too.
Robby, the new interlocking plant in Lombard will be located in the vicinity of Grace St (approx. MP19.4) with universal crossovers on both sides of the crossing. One set of crossovers (east of Grace St., from MT2-MT3) have already been installed. Please see my updates on the previous page for more details...