Trillium Line Upgrades & Extension (Stage 2) [Greenboro to Airport/Limebank] | U/C

[Kitchissippi]

Bing maps has recent satellite imagery (looks like last October), showing good detail of the tracks.

It also captures the new Civic hospital site construction. Doesn't look like they've made room for double tracking in the trenched part of the site. Sigh. https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=45.3958...l=18.7&style=h

[kmcamp]

Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

Bing maps has recent satellite imagery (looks like last October), showing good detail of the tracks.

It also captures the new Civic hospital site construction. Doesn't look like they've made room for double tracking in the trenched part of the site. Sigh. https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=45.3958...l=18.7&style=h

I think this is just for shoring up the existing trench while they build. It's probably safe to say the building itself will have enough of a gap below it for a widened trench, much like the parking garage at Carleton has space for double track

[zzptichka]

Originally Posted by AuxTown

Are they doing a lot of testing still? I haven't been along the line since mid-winter. How do the trains look? I need updates!

[AuxTown]

Originally Posted by zzptichka

[kmcamp]

Sometimes I wonder what the maximum throughput of trains is. At South keys today, 1 airport train, 3 southbound trains, and 2 Northbound trains passed by within a space of 15 minutes. That's way faster than scheduled service in the southbound direction. I feel like they were just moving trains as fast as the system allows

[ponyboycurtis]

Originally Posted by kmcamp

Sometimes I wonder what the maximum throughput of trains is. At South keys today, 1 airport train, 3 southbound trains, and 2 Northbound trains passed by within a space of 15 minutes. That's way faster than scheduled service in the southbound direction. I feel like they were just moving trains as fast as the system allows

I don't quite understand the dwell times. For the most part the trains seem to stop for several minutes. Northbound in particular. The Airport one is the only train that seems to have a normal dwell time.