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Passenger Trains > Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line openingDate: 02/24/17 18:35 Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line opening Author: dan opened at 11am today to some cold weather and snow ; following I-225 roughly, north south line east of denver
Date: 02/24/17 19:59 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: casco17 Thanks for the heads up. This is a "new" route with no parallel freight line, and IIRC much fewer grade crossings...no hiccups with PTC on this route?
Date: 02/24/17 20:48 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: bretton88 The R Line is a new light rail line, so no need for PTC or anything more complex than usual. It is super slow though.
Date: 02/24/17 21:22 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: ronzephyr How do you define super slow?
Not much difference from the E or F line Union Station/Downtown (42-45 minutes)- roughly 16 miles 52 minutes for 18 mies (estimate) from Lincoln Avenue 15 stops- this is not an express line to the airport Ron Date: 02/24/17 21:48 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: Cumbresfan casco17 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the heads up. This is a "new" route > with no parallel freight line, and IIRC much fewer > grade crossings...no hiccups with PTC on this > route? No PTC but very slow (much is 35 mph or below) with numerous stations and street crossings (some with no priority for LR), some street running and crazy diagonal crossings at 4-way intersections. See this video to understand the situation: https://youtu.be/a5gHD0uXvHk Date: 02/25/17 01:05 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: joemagruder It is hard to understand why a new light rail line would have so much slow running.
Date: 02/25/17 05:49 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: cozephyr Difficult route winding around Aurora Metro Center Station/Towncenter Mall and shops along South Sable Blvd.
R Line train @Colfax Station over East Colfax about 7 PM February 24, 2017. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/25/17 05:50 by cozephyr. Date: 02/25/17 07:38 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: Grande473 As a retired Denver light rail train operator (we are not conductors) I can shed some light on this. Our Light Rail Vehicles have a governor set at 57 mph with a top posted speed of 55 mph. The commuter trains top out at 79 mph. The routing through Aurora is the big bottleneck. There was a lot of back-and-forth between RTD and Aurora planners over this, such as emergency vehicles having to wait for trains at gated crossings.
The plan was to have nine trainsets in the rotation with 15-minute headways with some headway adjustment going through Aurora. Date: 02/25/17 08:55 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: dan it was originally going to go next to a bunch of hospitals, but they were afraid of the vehicles effects on medical equipment, what a shame. the new VA,.childrens, fitz, CU a shame it couldn't be closer
Date: 02/26/17 06:31 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: Bob3985 I was down in Aurora Friday for dinner at my favorite German restaurant and spend the night nearby which just happened to along the R line. The trains were running quite regularly. I don't believe this line was supposed to be high speed with all the stops they serve. The point being that I saw very full trains on Friday about 5pm. They are getting the ridership. And the R line does duck under I-225 to get to the west side and has an elevated station by 6th Avenue next to the Anschutz medical center. They just added like 6 or 7 new wings to that hospital. When I get back home from manning our model layout at the mall I will down load a few photos I took yesterday.
Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 02/26/17 13:31 Re: Aurora colo gets light rail service today with the r line ope Author: Grande473 The rides were free Friday. That's why so many people showed up. I remember running a train on the W line on opening day weekend. Load 'em and go, no schedule. (Actually there was a schedule but it was a work of fiction.)
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