by LINYARailfan
Which track is the 3100 on at arch street? I ride the 7 train to hunterspoint every day and when I was at hunterspoint and arch street yesterday I did not see it.
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LINYARailfan wrote:Which track is the 3100 on at arch street? I ride the 7 train to hunterspoint every day and when I was at hunterspoint and arch street yesterday I did not see it.F*ck me, i meant wheelspur.
ConstanceR46 wrote:Then it must be making its way up the Lower Montauk to Fresh Pond via NYA to be sent off the property west to Frontier Metals sometime very soon?LINYARailfan wrote:Which track is the 3100 on at arch street? I ride the 7 train to hunterspoint every day and when I was at hunterspoint and arch street yesterday I did not see it.F*ck me, i meant wheelspur.
LINYARailfan wrote:Then it must be making its way up the Lower Montauk to Fresh Pond via NYA to be sent off the property west to Frontier Metals sometime very soon?
Backshophoss wrote:The lot seems to mostly gravel,might have been just "muddy" enough to somewhat unstable for the rental cranes.The lot's also, from my 2 foot-expeditions (one given clearance, once where they didn't care that much) the yard is fairly ramshackle. Pretty full of gravel, and the far track that the cars are loaded on is literally dug into the pavement; it's just exposed roadbed and not level at all. Couple that with mud and i doubt a crane stands a chance, in addition to 3100 (potentially) being heavier than the previously-shipped lightweight EMUs/former EMUs
DogBert wrote:They've had no problem loading the other dozen or so M3s there, so the ground has nothing to do with it. They were using two small truck mounted cranes, my guess is the FA somehow weighs more or they didn't have a cutting torch to slides some holes to sling cable through... or maybe the roof is too shot to actually be rigged the same way the M3s were.I think it's the former; the FA is a big, body on frame piece of steel; the M3s and P-72s are very light in comparison, i'd assume.
I'm sure they'll figure out, or cut it into chunks.
Teutobergerwald wrote:So they broke-dicked the building of a new yard- new trackage on wooden ties with the bare-minimum of ballast and just bluestone with no drainage ?????? Which entity funded this new "Wheelspur Yard?"
DogBert wrote:The ballast and ties are new; not really a problem. There's dirt all around the loading building, with patches of concrete occasionally. I'd say the most glaring problem are the 2 open sinkholes by the west end of the River Track.
We all know the answer to that one. If I recall right the ground closer to the loading dock building is concrete, with dirt closer to the loop track. The ballast & ties don't look that bad to me by freight standards (certainly no worse than what CSX has on hell gate). Certainly would have been nicer if they replaced it all with concrete, but I'm assuming they blew the budget knocking down the fire damaged building that was there, and laying out the extra tracks.