dinwitty wrote:Are they doing day/night work, or can some of this be done at night without interrupting service?
The crossing work is completed. Completely removing and reinstalling a crossing is not something that can be done in a few hours. (The biggest gap in service at South Bend is 6hr 50min from 11pm-5:50am daily or 7hr 55min from 11pm-6:55am on Friday night.) Working at night would just make it harder and more expensive.
The service interruption was minor. Trains parked at Westmoor St instead of the airport during their layover. Two buses to take passengers between the airport and the train. Considering the speed and distance on the in town track the delay was minor (although transferring the passengers between the bus and train took a few minutes).
I didn't catch what NICTD did with 11-22 and 15-422 last Monday (April 19th). Normally these two meet at the airport.
Some of the ballast equipment was still parked along Bendix on Sunday. The road at crossing is now asphalt. The rest of Bendix Drive is still a mess, but that's not NICTD's problem.
NICTD has also had a midday work session busing a couple of trains to do tie replacements near Birchim on March 31st and April 1st.
NICTD had a different problem Sunday as the signaling system got stuck. Pine Rd crossing's flashers remained activated despite the lack of a train and eastbounds from Olive to Fisher (Smilax Rd to Pine Rd) faced erroneous red signals slowing the trains to restricting speed.