DCA Wrote:
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> The curve has been there for years. The track has
> to curve in order to align with the double-track
> main before entering the main at Nisqually. Of
> course for a lot of money, the curve could be
> rebuilt to be less severe. However, that would
> entail a new bridge over I-5 and obtaining the
> land necessary to widen out the curvature. Not
> cheap.
>
> One thing that doesn't seem to have been mentioned
> much, if at all, is why Amtrak/WashDOT/Sound
> Transit didn't come up with the idea of a
> temporary maximum speed on the cut-off of perhaps
> 50 mph, for a week or two while the crews got
> familiar with both the district and the new
> locomotives. A common-sense, safety-oriented
> approach that would not have affected schedules at
> all, based on the shorter distance traveled as
> compared to the original route along the Puget
> Sound.
And therin lies the problem—— you said “ a common sense approach” and it wss pretty obvious expediency negated common sense.
C