Posted Aug 15, 2019, 3:00 AM
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loafing in lotusland
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Lotusland
Posts: 6,108
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Originally Posted by BCPhil
Someone from Montreal can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is a pretty crucial link between the Container Port on the north side of the island to the rail network on the Islands South Side. It might not be a mainline, but it's an actively used shortcut.
In the couple of hours I spent hanging out on the patio at BreWskey taproom, 2 trains went by, on a beautiful Saturday with thousands of tourists out and about.
Hell, the google maps satellite view shows a train on the tracks there. It's common enough that that's the best Google could do.
It wasn't even signalled a few years ago, AND streetview captured a train in 2016.
Now at least there are gates. But only after someone lost their legs trying to climb between stopped trains. And I think there was another accident a few years before that when it used to be double tracked.
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Exactly... gates help prevent otherwise sensible people from doing senseless stuff. You can't stop stupid... but that's not the point.
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