For immediate release: February 19, 2019
Metro seeks public input on proposed construction of a Metrorail Heavy Repair and Overhaul Facility
Graphic of facility site
This is not a new idea from the planning people within WMATA. Some years ago they were looking at a property east of the Landover station for a maintance of way base and another property off Addison Road east of the Deenwood station for the heavy repair and overhaul facility. The shop bays at the Addison Road site would have been accessed by use of a transfer table from the shop lead connecting to mainline north of Eastern Avenue.
Considering how close this propose facility is to the Carmen Turner facility and other near by WMATA properties it makes sense. The maintenance capacity at the Future Dulles Yard on the west side of town is roughly equal to WMATA's largest maintenance facility in Greenbelt Yard. Neither of those facility have the infrastructure that I think WMATA wants to use this propose facility for. Think Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona Shops.
Metro seeks public input on proposed construction of a Metrorail Heavy Repair and Overhaul Facility
Graphic of facility site
This is not a new idea from the planning people within WMATA. Some years ago they were looking at a property east of the Landover station for a maintance of way base and another property off Addison Road east of the Deenwood station for the heavy repair and overhaul facility. The shop bays at the Addison Road site would have been accessed by use of a transfer table from the shop lead connecting to mainline north of Eastern Avenue.
Considering how close this propose facility is to the Carmen Turner facility and other near by WMATA properties it makes sense. The maintenance capacity at the Future Dulles Yard on the west side of town is roughly equal to WMATA's largest maintenance facility in Greenbelt Yard. Neither of those facility have the infrastructure that I think WMATA wants to use this propose facility for. Think Pennsylvania Railroad Altoona Shops.
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