06-07-2015, 05:21 PM
(06-07-2015, 04:09 PM)Canard Wrote: Crews were out doing work on the tracks where they cross King in downtown Waterloo today. The sign said it was closed from June 6 for 2 days so must have been something they could do over the weekend.
It was a track replacement of the crossing. They spent the previous couple of days building the new track adjacent to the existing track near the old train station (Paul Puncher’s). Once the old track is removed, they slide the newly-assembled track into place like a piece of model railroad flex track.
I’m not sure why the crossing was replaced — last I heard the whole thing is to be re-aligned and replaced as part of the LRT construction. Perhaps with the delay of the King St. work to next Spring it was felt the condition of the old crossing was too poor to leave for another year.