04-30-2017, 03:47 PM
4/4 - Sunday, April 30, 2017
I wasn't going to jump into the nitpicking bandwagon, but this is pretty bad.
I might have to email Pride Signs.
Platform edge work at Northfield.
At the LRV offloading, I talked at length with a CN or CP employee (can't remember) who was retired, and used to operate Harsco track tampers. He told me a funny story about how the GrandLinq guys are "new to them" and "haven't figured out how to end curves properly". He mentioned there was a particularly bad section around the Northfield station and I should check it out sometime. He said there's a technique that takes a while to get the hang of to smooth out the starts and ends of the curves, but they hadn't done that in a bunch of spots... I finally got around to checking it out today, and sure enough, he's right! The curve overshoots quite a bit here. Won't really matter for the slow and jerky freight trains that go along here, but it made me smile remembering him telling me about it when I noticed it today.
I really can't wait for this to get fixed up. It just looks like such crap through here.
Waterloo Town Square station.
I wasn't going to jump into the nitpicking bandwagon, but this is pretty bad.
I might have to email Pride Signs.Platform edge work at Northfield.
At the LRV offloading, I talked at length with a CN or CP employee (can't remember) who was retired, and used to operate Harsco track tampers. He told me a funny story about how the GrandLinq guys are "new to them" and "haven't figured out how to end curves properly". He mentioned there was a particularly bad section around the Northfield station and I should check it out sometime. He said there's a technique that takes a while to get the hang of to smooth out the starts and ends of the curves, but they hadn't done that in a bunch of spots... I finally got around to checking it out today, and sure enough, he's right! The curve overshoots quite a bit here. Won't really matter for the slow and jerky freight trains that go along here, but it made me smile remembering him telling me about it when I noticed it today.
I really can't wait for this to get fixed up. It just looks like such crap through here.
Waterloo Town Square station.