pumpers wrote:The CSX stacks on the Morrisville line are going from South Philadephia to the CSX trenton line (ex Reading).
THey can't go the all-CSX route (ex BO from South Philadelphia to PARK by the museum, then the Reading line to the ex-Reading
Trenton line, because of some clearance issues. So instead they go over the Arsenal bridge, over the high line to Abrams,
and then reverse to go through Septa -land and then onto the Morrisville line, getting back onto CSX trenton line at Wood(?).
THere is talk of CSX fixing its clearance issues, so it doesn't have to do this.
My questions is, who knows exactly where the clearance issues are?
JS
The entire Trenton Line from CP-RIVER to CP-WOOD is the issue. With a few exceptions, every overpass is too low for autoracks or stacks. Currently, the line has been undercut for clearance at Rhawn Street and from CP-NICE to CP-RIVER. Preliminary work is going on now for Cottman Avenue and adjacent Oxford Ave/Bleigh St.
Still to go: the Low Grade from CP-NICE to 18th Street, Olney Avenue, Levick Street, Old Soldiers, Bustleton Ave and Red Lion Rd (which appear to need mere inches to drop and not feet), Byberry Road, Southampton Avenue, Hulmeville Avenue, and the NS Morrisville Line. And between 15th Street and Olney Avenue as well as Neshaminy Falls to CP-WOOD, the steady span wires for SEPTA catenary will have to be raised a few inches.
cpontani wrote:Septa announced that it's starting a new bus route #150 from Plymouth Meeting Mall to Philadelphia Park via the PA Tpke., assuming for the casino employees. Doesn't this pretty much parralel the route the Cross County Metro would have taken? Is this a chicken/egg scenario, where they won't build if there's demand, but there isn't demand because there aren't any alternatives other than driving? I know that you're not going to build a rail line to replace a couple of bus trips a day, but isn't this a step in the right direction, where Septa is admitting that people want to go from suburb to suburb without having to go via Center City?
And that bus route is almost nothing more than glorified pull-in/pull-out trips that run nonstop from the mall to Street Road, then making all stops to PARX, running only a few times a day.
Thomasthetank wrote:Noticed that there have been a lot more trains on the Trenton Spur and also they are increasinmg their speed ++. Anyone know what is going on? Just the recession lifting and the Coatsville recycling plant taking of? or what?
Still just the one train a day each way between Coatesville and CP-KING on that line (now the Dale Secondary) and the entire line is now under a long-term temporary speed restriction (10mph from GLEN to MP 45, 25mph from MP 45 to KING). The rest of the route from KING to Morrisville is the Morrisville Line and maximum speeds on that section is 50mph.