$60m of work has been completed to create longer passing tracks and add signals to the B-Line "end" of the Piedmont Division. On top of that, a significant amount of double-tracking has been done north of Riverton on the Shenandoah line's route to Hagerstown MD.
Now it looks like the next thing is re-doing the junction at Riverton VA where the Piedmont ties into the Shenandoah Divsion. An update from July 2009 can be found here:
http://www.drpt.virginia.gov/projects/f ... Update.pdf
It says the work on the Riverton Junction will be done from late 2009 to early 2010 (see page 27 of the PDF, above). What I can't tell is why the new intersection is better than the old one. Will the North-South traffic now fly over the East-West traffic on its way to the little-used part of the B-Line (that goes to Strasburg / Edinburg VA)?
Now it looks like the next thing is re-doing the junction at Riverton VA where the Piedmont ties into the Shenandoah Divsion. An update from July 2009 can be found here:
http://www.drpt.virginia.gov/projects/f ... Update.pdf
It says the work on the Riverton Junction will be done from late 2009 to early 2010 (see page 27 of the PDF, above). What I can't tell is why the new intersection is better than the old one. Will the North-South traffic now fly over the East-West traffic on its way to the little-used part of the B-Line (that goes to Strasburg / Edinburg VA)?
"Trying to solve congestion by making roadways wider is like trying to solve obesity by buying bigger pants."--Charles Marohn
