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Re: Can freight trains ever operate on track where Light Rail Operates
Author: Portland MAX
Date: 10-14-2024 - 21:03
FUD Wrote:
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> In recent years, the freight railroads have gotten a little more picky
> about distance between light rail and freight rail tracks (they want more),
> fencing at stations and other places pedestrians are often in the r/w, and
> apportioning liability for incidents and maintenance. Occasionally, they'll
> want some kind of positive barrier, like a concrete wall, between the light and
> freight rail, attempting to keeping derailments or shifting loads on one line
> from affecting the other.
Green Line was built directly alongside UP's Brooklyn Sub from SE 6th Avenue (just east of ORHC) to SE 17th Avenue in a NW/SE direction. Only separation is a three foot tall chainlink fence.
Again from SE Reedway, south of Brooklyn Yard, to SE Ochoco Street at Willsburg Junction. Only "protection" is a chainlink fence.
From Willsburg Junction south to Milwaukie the Orange Line shares a ROW with UP's Milwaukie Industrial Lead, a.k.a. P&W's Wilsonia District, a.k.a. the Tillamook District, with just a cable barrier between the light rail and the freight tracks. Within Milwaukie, the two railroads share crossing signals.
The only thing MAX does not do, that is done in Salt Lake City, Sacramento and San Diego, is actively sharing the same rails between freight and light rail. But we have WES Commuter Rail, intentionally overbuilt and underused.
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> In recent years, the freight railroads have gotten a little more picky
> about distance between light rail and freight rail tracks (they want more),
> fencing at stations and other places pedestrians are often in the r/w, and
> apportioning liability for incidents and maintenance. Occasionally, they'll
> want some kind of positive barrier, like a concrete wall, between the light and
> freight rail, attempting to keeping derailments or shifting loads on one line
> from affecting the other.
Green Line was built directly alongside UP's Brooklyn Sub from SE 6th Avenue (just east of ORHC) to SE 17th Avenue in a NW/SE direction. Only separation is a three foot tall chainlink fence.
Again from SE Reedway, south of Brooklyn Yard, to SE Ochoco Street at Willsburg Junction. Only "protection" is a chainlink fence.
From Willsburg Junction south to Milwaukie the Orange Line shares a ROW with UP's Milwaukie Industrial Lead, a.k.a. P&W's Wilsonia District, a.k.a. the Tillamook District, with just a cable barrier between the light rail and the freight tracks. Within Milwaukie, the two railroads share crossing signals.
The only thing MAX does not do, that is done in Salt Lake City, Sacramento and San Diego, is actively sharing the same rails between freight and light rail. But we have WES Commuter Rail, intentionally overbuilt and underused.
