[PRCo] Fwd: Broad Street Subway north of Olney Av

[James B. Holland]

"draughtsmon" <draughtsman at ...> wrote:

Caught a northbound Express on the Broad Street Line after the Flyers
game last night.  Good, fast ride.  The first stop was Walnut-Locust,
then the express track to Fern Rock.  I could see the electronic
speedometer in the cab, and the train reached 64 mph as it passed by
Susquehanna-Dauphin, then 62 mph passing Wyoming Avenue.

I noticed something interesting, looking out the front of the train just
north of Olney Avenue.  It looks like a set of two tracks goes up a ramp
(or the tracks that the train took ramped down - it was hard to tell). 
Why the grade separation?  Was the track layout there set up to be a
junction of some sort?

Mike Sz.

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