Checked out station yesterday while traveling on Sunset Limited. New platform completed. New sidewalks just about finished. Still requires double stop when #1 train has 421 cars.
What does your story have anything to do with Alpine TX station?Time to close that station. I say that because, when I was New Jersey Transit crew dispatcher, which took over the commuter lines in 1983, NJT ran one round trip on the former Reading line from West Trenton. They ran it for about one year and it was discontinued, one of the reasons being perhaps because Conrail wanted to single track that line to Bound Brook. Several days before the end of the service, the conductor, a former CNJ man, called me in astonishment. A contractor was pouring asphalt for a new platform at Belle Mead! Ah bureaucracy in action!
:huh:Checked out station yesterday while traveling on Sunset Limited. New platform completed. New sidewalks just about finished. Still requires double stop when #1 train has 421 cars.
Only when it's running East of San Antonio. Even if the TE is halted or turned back due to some sort of blockage or impasse SAS has protect cars that can be added as needed.:huh:Checked out station yesterday while traveling on Sunset Limited. New platform completed. New sidewalks just about finished. Still requires double stop when #1 train has 421 cars.
Is there ever a time when the Sunset *doesn't* have cars from the TE?
I understood it right away.People do not seem to understand my attempt at wry humor.
What does your story have anything to do with Alpine TX station?
It is an accepted railroad axiom that when a major project at a facility occurs, that usually means the facility will soon get sold, demolished or just remain closed for some reason. Conrail was notorious for letting their stuff fall apart. When you saw it was being spruced up, you knew its days were numbered.Time to close that station
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