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A northbound commute pulls out of Mountain View across the rebuilding of the Castro Street grade crossing.
November 1999 |
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A somewhat closer shot shows the watchman holding up his watchman's disk. This lets the engineer know that all of the workers at the site are aware of the train and are in the clear.
November 1999 |
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The work train backs up to Castro St. to deliver the new grade crossing, which is made up of numerous prebuilt concrete slabs.
November 1999 |
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The sections of grade-crossing are unloaded from the work train's bulkhead flat car.
November 1999 |
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One of the concrete slabs is lowered into place over track number two.
November 1999 |
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After switching some cars at Redwood Junction, the work train crossed over from Main Track 1 to 2 at milepost 27.0, and is seen here proceeding north on 2 to the Coast Lead to retrieve more cars.
2000 |
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Here a flagman's truck is seen parked adjacent to trailing-point crossover milepost 27.0.
2000 |
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The work train shoves a cut of hopper cars toward the platform on Track 2 in Redwood City, dumping ballast for the final alignment of the new track through the station.
2000 |
