09-28-2015, 07:23 AM
Yeah, this is embedded track after all - the green bars which span the rails right now are just for alignment/holding them at the right gauge until the concrete is poured. The mesh is like rebar basically. So they will come back and precisely align this track (not with the tamper of course!) by hand and then pour. I was led to believe that this section and the Hayward section were actually to be balasted track so I'm quite surprised to see it actually is embedded, unless I misunderstood the RT team. I wonder when they'll start pouring though, since they basically need to have the track complete out both ends to do that, and there's no sign of a date (AFAIK) for closing Courtland to do the crossing there.