by lvrr325
Just going by what I see in the imgages, you have two parallell tracks no more than half a mile apart, one apparently still connected to the main, the other apparently not.
It seems to me that it would be cheaper to extend the existing lead west and then run a lead off it southward into the new park than to pay the costs to get a switch put back in to the parallell lead. If the new line winds up oriented 90' to the existing one, what difference would it make when no facility is set up to use it? They can build it either way.
Further, there's even a switch as part of the industrial spur so one could either directly access a southward track, or pull in and reverse via switchback to enter it.
It seems to me that it would be cheaper to extend the existing lead west and then run a lead off it southward into the new park than to pay the costs to get a switch put back in to the parallell lead. If the new line winds up oriented 90' to the existing one, what difference would it make when no facility is set up to use it? They can build it either way.
Further, there's even a switch as part of the industrial spur so one could either directly access a southward track, or pull in and reverse via switchback to enter it.