09-27-2014, 09:31 AM
DHLawrence Wrote:Didn't we already know they'd bought the line?
I'd love to know how they're going to double track the trestle in Guelph.
If you're talking about the bridge over the Speed river the piers seem to be built with double tracks in mind. There looks to be enough room on the tops of the beams to lay down new trusses. I imagine they'd rework the bridge so that it's ballasted as well. The hard part of a job like that is staging for all the cranes and trucks unloading the new steel. I imagine they'd do it at night and build most of the south section of new bridge first and then be able to to work in the middle on tying it together with the existing bridge. Closing that intersection would really bung up traffic in that part of Guelph too. Won't be cheap that's for sure.