by TCRT612
CSX Conductor wrote: The old track you're referring to which is the southeast leg of the wye at Walpole is called Lewis' Wye. Lewis' Wye has always had many headaches when used to/from the Franklin Main-line because a track circuit would always exist after the train's out of the interlocking. Also, even thouh the switch joining the Franklin Main is within Walpole interlocking, it is hand-thrown with an electric lock switch on a timer, with a hand-thrown derail. The T probably feels that with trains leaving track circuits in the interlocking and needing C&S dept to recify the problem costs more money just by needing C&S to come out. Also, you'd need to line the iron by hand as well as the derail, flag the crossing in the station's parking lot, and line the iron where the wye joins the Framingham Secondary, plus ir's derail. Afterwards everything would have to be relined and locked. Again, they used to have C&S on scene to line the iron and flag the crossing, but it costs more to have these people here, especially if 's overtime for them on their day off.I took the train to and from Foxborough this evening, and it definitely used this leg of the wye. We did have to stop once for the switch on the Franklin line and twice for the switch at the south end of this leg -my guess would be once for an employee to get off and throw the switch and again for said employee to get back on. This probably meant about 10 minutes of stopping total, plus the (what seemed like) 5mph run through this leg of the wye. Any ideas as to whether or not this is faster than the "old" method using the other wye leg?
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