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Originally Posted by comoneymaker
That one picture of the one building is already 10x better than the abandon dirty looking warehouses you see for 75% of the trip. Hopefully it is non stop from DUS to DIA.
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A one stop at Peoria from DIA to Lodo would be great, but due to the lack of passing tracks at a station or three, those that schedule trains will tell you it is impossible. If you run an express on a track without passing in the same direction tracks, all traffic ahead of the express time wise equal to the net time savings will have to be off the right-of-way ahead of the express. This is a silly design flaw considering that there is ample room to do this at all almost all the station locations.*
This all gets a bit more complicated when one throws in the 1 track segment of the line.
For the record, a train with one stop averaging 60 mph would take around 23 minutes from DIA to DUS, a approximately 20 minute savings from a local type train. From Peoria 8 to 10 minutes.
Now THAT would be world class. However,............
*The argument about having to have pedestrian station bridges or tunnels really does not hold water. All really that is needed is a level walkway at near track top levels across 3 tracks at a couple of stations (Although I admit an overhead pass and fenced off express tracks would copy what most of the rest of the world is doing.) This is what is known as high (in the bureaucracy) stupidity.