[PRCo] lrv ops Wash Jct

[Jim Holland]

 From another list  --  any more info on the first incident and is Peter 
Schmidt a local railfan?:::::::
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An operator tried to take a LRV through the PCC turnback loop at 
Washington Junction one evening. Seems the operator wasn't paying 
attention to the signal at the end of the platform. It was red 
indicating that a PCC had just been through the loop and the signal had 
not reset for mainline traffic. It entered the loop, made it about a 
quarter of the way and then derailed plowing through the center of the 
loop demolishing the dwarf signal ending up on the other side. I 
happened upon the scene the next morning, sadly without a camera. It 
took them all night to clean up the mess according to the fare collector 
at the junction.



 >  "polybalt" <pjslks at ...> wrote:
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 > When the decision was to keep the other lines, provisions needed to 
be made to keep the PCC's and turn them around. They added to the design 
a large number of short radius turning loops for the PCC's, too tight a 
radius for the LRV's to negotiate. Two wide-radius loops remain in 
service at South Hills Village and Gateway.
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 > The now-standard LRT minimum radius of 25 meters means any turning 
loop needs four times the area as a 40' loop. Tha coupled with the 
desire to have station platforms on either side -- which requires 
double-sided cars in any case, has tipped the balance to double-ended.
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 > Pete Schmidt
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