After the meeting on Tuesday, several of us looked at the east end of the Lincoln yard, by Union Ice. The initial idea about making a lead for the back runaround was changed into making a new main line track to the front 2 runarounds. What this does is makes the old mainline from Jutland the switching lead and the front runaround a line for through trains like passenger trains, the ore train, and the branch line mixed freight. That solves the east end but the mainline would still be blocked at the west end while switching moves were being done. The solution was revisiting the plan to make the part of the branch line running past the station a runaround. This would make the outer loop of track around Lincoln the new mainline and the old mainline the west end switching lead. Wow, when heads get together we can spend lots of money, no, I mean come up with an excellent plan.
visual of proposed switch placement. The track on the right will be the new mainline and is not connected to the switching lead. The track on the right runs through the switch on the right to a new junction on the mainline around the corner heading towards Jutland.
visual of the crossover which makes the outer loop a runaround.
red lines are the new track proposed, on the top right is the new crossover which requires the turnout on the branch line be moved as illustrated. On the bottom left are the 2 new turnouts and the new mainline track. The old mainlines are now switching leads for Lincoln industries.
No comments:
Post a Comment