new tracks
Chris:
I was downtown today in my NG95 mask
and had a look at King Street. I noticed that the new rail is NOT girder rail, just T rail. (Girder rail is the stuff with molded in flangeway.) They are putting rubber pieces on the sides of the rails before they pour concrete.
The Kingston Road tripper has an interesting routing. It can't make its usual turn onto King, so continued north to Queen. It can't turn at Adelaide because, although there are 6 curves in the specialwork there, due to the two one-way streets, only one curve is legal and it's not the one they need! Also saw that one of the frogs at York & Adelaide has been replaced with a straight rail. The full overhead is still in place, but some of the unused curves have some rather odd bends and sags.
Rant: Since all those streets have been one-way as far back as I can remember (over 30 years, maybe 35), why have they maintained the double track and the overhead? Especially, why have they redone the double track in concrete? And when they have removed some of the illegal switches! (Illegal=wrong way on one-way street)
Nice shot of the ex-Kansas City car. Always liked the high windows.