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Re: "gauntlet track on the pit rivier bridge?
Author: ES
Date: 04-20-2013 - 14:01

Was there gauntiet track on the Pit River Bridge over lake Shasta? The bridge is just north of Redding, CA. Both Rail and I 5 use the bridge.




SP5103 Wrote:
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> There are two types of gauntlet track.
>
> The first provides an offset of the same track -
> either to clear a platform or to avoid the live
> rails of a scale.
>
> The second type combines two tracks to enable them
> to temporarily share the space of one track
> without actually connecting the two tracks. This
> is commonly found where two tracks have to cross a
> single track bridge and once clear go back to two
> separate tracks.
>
> I have also seen gauntlet track used where the
> points of a switch are on one side of a small
> bridge, and the frog is on the other.

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