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Search Google: most complicated crossing in america, then see pages 435-439.

Spent many days here watching trains. I thought back then that this could be an entire model railroad with nothing else but staging out of sight in all four directions.

TAW

Is this the only example of a three-track diamond? (I see three tracks overlapping.) That would be a real challenge to create, much less wire.

TAW Wrote:
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> Search Google: most complicated crossing in
> america, then see pages 435-439.
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> TAW

...of the Railway Engineering & MOW article listed at the top of the search, dated Nov., 1914. Not on pages 435-439 of Google's search which has ~1,3MM search results.



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NSTopHat Wrote:
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> TAW Wrote:
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> > Search Google: most complicated crossing in
> > america, then see pages 435-439.
> >
> > TAW
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> ...of the Railway Engineering & MOW article listed
> at the top of the search, dated Nov., 1914. Not on
> pages 435-439 of Google's search which has ~1,3MM
> search results.

oops. That's how I got there, then didn't back page to complete the trail.

That search will give the first entry:Railway Engineering and Maintenancehttps://books.google.com/books?id=iXgfAQAAMAAJ
 The real page link is, oh looks like maybe a hundred characters or so. I tried to tinyurl it, but was informed that was a violation of the terms of service.

The ad section in the front has page numbers 2-8. The rest is numbered continuously from previous issues. The first page after the ads is 431. The subject article starts four pages later.

TAW

Was this later elevated, Tom?

Victor

www.erstwhilepublications.com

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Was this later elevated, Tom?
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Nope. The northernmost C&A track (connecting the C&A to Clark Street) and the westernmost C&WI track were goine by the early 60s, when I started going there. The rest was just as in the drawings in the article (except the tower was moved from overhead to the north side of the plant, by the bridge after, if I remember correctly, being torn down by a derailment). http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2052924,2052924#2052924

Now, the C&WI is gone altogether, as is the Santa Fe. The CTA Orange line is elevated over the PRR above the Santa Fe alignment.

TAW

Seeing that track setup made me GOL (groan out loud). :-)

Whoa!

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Now that ought to be fun to make dcc friendly!

https://goo.gl/maps/qfUMJVeUuc92 for current view.  The diagrams in the article are impressive too.

Would be no problem for the dead rail society as far as wiring.....!