Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station
Author: Steve Carter
Date: 12-13-2013 - 17:30

Hey John, the Nelson Bennett tunnel is still double track, at least at the PSMRE ( www.psmre.org ). Seriously, it was originally double track and yep the Double Stacks and Autorack forced it to single track. Others more knowledgeable than I, have said the cost to double track it again would be prohibitive.

BNSF does indeed to a good job of keeping it available for the Passenger trains. Frequently I hear trains being told they'll have to wait for an Amtrak, and it is often a suprising (for me anyway) distance away. Short of something gone wrong, I never hear Amtrak being told they will have to wait to run through the tunnels.



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  New Tacoma Amtrak station Brian 12-12-2013 - 12:33
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station George Andrews 12-12-2013 - 13:23
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Graham Buxton 12-12-2013 - 13:52
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Dmac844 12-12-2013 - 15:42
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station George Andrews 12-12-2013 - 16:54
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Arlen Sheldrake 12-12-2013 - 17:04
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Tom Rawson 12-12-2013 - 17:25
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station George Andrews 12-12-2013 - 18:17
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Erik H. 12-12-2013 - 20:33
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station jdb 12-12-2013 - 20:38
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station George Andrews 12-12-2013 - 20:50
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Steve Carter 12-12-2013 - 22:10
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station George Andrews 12-13-2013 - 08:46
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Bruce Butler 12-13-2013 - 10:26
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station John Van Amburg 12-13-2013 - 11:36
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Steve Carter 12-13-2013 - 17:30
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station BN Oly 12-13-2013 - 19:33
  Re: New Tacoma Amtrak station Goatboat 12-17-2013 - 13:31


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