Passenger Trains > SMART Maintenance facility in Windsor nearing completion.

The following pictures are pretty much self explanitory.  The pictures showing the DMU set is farther south at Fulton Road. This facility will be used to storre their MOW equipment. The third image shows some of the track layout coming off the mainline.

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The first and third image is looking north and the middle image looks south.

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They are using stick rail in their yard and this pile is from the NWP legacy mainline they tore up before the relaid the line with ribbon rail. Its the best of the 112 lb. jointed rail.  The last image looks south and shows the gauntlet track in place for the station platform. 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/15 22:58 by weather.

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This image looks north towards Windsor and at this point in time is the end of the northward expansion of SMART track. SMART crews are installing the wiring for the crossing. The NWP mainline continues onto the Town of Windsor and features a 3000 ft. siding used as a run around track.  Text and Photos by Mike Pechner

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An expaned view of the crossing construction.

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What does "SMART" stand for?
You posted some good photos
of where ? you were.

Mark

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Markedup Wrote:
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> What does "SMART" stand for?

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit

This is on the Peninsula on the north side of the San Francisco Bay.

Thank you for the update! These are really cool. I especially like that they are reusing the 112 lb rail in the yard. Cheap and environmentally friendly. I will have to ride this when I visit California again in October of next year (2016). I pasted their website for others.

http://main.sonomamarintrain.org/

Jim

What is the gauntlet track used for?

DFWJIM Wrote:
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> What is the gauntlet track used for?

Freights, so they don't hit the high level platforms, and for crews riding on the side ladders of cars (Federal requirement)...

I love the paint scheme on the DMUs. It looks quite snappy. Although I expected a PRR-inspired scheme: in all the artists' conceptions of the SMART, the cars were wearing bright red with PRR-like gold stripes. I guess you shouldn't take artists' conceptions to be the real thing: I would bet that in 20 years, I'll see the California High-Speed Rail sets unveiled and say "Why are they red? They're supposed to be blue and yellow!" ;-)

Tor in Eugene

ats90mph Wrote:
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> Freights, so they don't hit the high level
> platforms, and for crews riding on the side
> ladders of cars (Federal requirement)...

Like other people said before, it is for compliance of CPUC General Order 26-D in case of ADA compliance with platform height greater than 8 inches. CPUC GO 26-D was written to prevent railroad workers, who might hang off the side of train cars, from hitting the platform. Train cars themselves will not hit the platform if in compliance of AAR clearance standards.

Cool hyrail backhoe.

more likely called an excavator with tracks that do not have cleats to not damage the rail surface. hyrail would presume equipment with the hyrail bogies attached which this does not. dave, out.