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Where does the train wye at in Newport News? And what is the address or area of the soon to be built station? I am familiar with the area.
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frequentflyer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:07 pm Where does the train wye at in Newport News? And what is the address or area of the soon to be built station? I am familiar with the area.The current turn is, I think, the eastern wye at 39th Street. The Va. DRPT says it enters "a CSX coal yard for turning and servicing," which more or less describes that area.
Roadgeek Adam wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:46 pm New station is on Bland Boulevard right next to 64.I'm guessing this station's new location has to do with it being next to an airport?
Pensyfan19 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:26 pmAirport, and general prosperity going on there. Everything's spread out, so it's a half hour walk at least to the museums, university, parks and new "city center" development. Home Depot and Lowes are closer. It will be multimodal, in that it will have buses and an airport shuttle. But I'd guess its location was largely due to the statewide negotiation with NS and CSX. That might also explain the delay breaking ground.Roadgeek Adam wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:46 pm New station is on Bland Boulevard right next to 64.I'm guessing this station's new location has to do with it being next to an airport?
kitchin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:11 pm The new station is in the southwestern (really southern) quadrant of I-64 and Bland Blvd. The train will get serviced and turned there without going further south. You can see a plan of a new wye in a grumpy article about delays, before the city later broke ground, likely using the same plan: https://wydaily.com/local-news/2019/01/ ... heres-why/Any idea on if there's going to be a yard attached to the wye or south of the station? I would think they'd be a servicing platform, unless the frequency to Newport News isn't that frequent.
An enlargement of the overhead plan in the article: https://wydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... .35-PM.png The new wye starts under the Bland Blvd. overpass. The horizontal line at the top is existing track, or a new siding.
kitchin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:11 pmhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Newpo ... 76.4518617frequentflyer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:07 pm Where does the train wye at in Newport News? And what is the address or area of the soon to be built station? I am familiar with the area.The current turn is, I think, the eastern wye at 39th Street. The Va. DRPT says it enters "a CSX coal yard for turning and servicing," which more or less describes that area.
The new station is in the southwestern (really southern) quadrant of I-64 and Bland Blvd. The train will get serviced and turned there without going further south. You can see a plan of a new wye in a grumpy article about delays, before the city later broke ground, likely using the same plan: https://wydaily.com/local-news/2019/01/ ... heres-why/
An enlargement of the overhead plan in the article: https://wydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... .35-PM.png The new wye starts under the Bland Blvd. overpass. The horizontal line at the top is existing track, or a new siding.
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kitchin wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 5:41 am The Bland Blvd. bridge over CSX and I-64 isn't too bad. I'm going to walk or bike up there on the sidewalk and take another photo of the under-construction (not proposed) station location at some point.I'm kinda surprised Newport News doesn't have shuttle/circulator service, like Williamsburg does.
Plenty of 3-star and lower hotels hover around the airport. The new Amtrak NPN is one mile to the closest 3-star, in the Home Depot direction over the bridge, and it's the same direction and distance from NPN to PHF Airport. I misstated how close the new station is to the fancier area in the other direction, around "City Center" and CNU and the parks and museums. A station there would have been three miles down the line, almost halfway to the current station. Judging by hotels, and leaving out Williamsburg, there are two 4-star hotels on the Peninsula, one at City Center and one in Hampton.
Maybe some day the city will build walking/biking trails, as other cities in the area have done. Or streetcar/light rail.
scratchyX1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:11 am I'm kinda surprised Newport News doesn't have shuttle/circulator service, like Williamsburg does.Those two places couldn't be more different. I happened to visit Williamsburg this week. It's a pleasant, well-integrated station near the historic and college area. Pictures of Ike and Churchill coming off an RF&P train hang on the wall. Great American Stations says it was built in 1936, in the C&O style, and renovated in 2002. There's a paved trackbed where a siding or double-track could be rebuilt.