Red-Purple Bypass Project

[renardo870]

Check this out!

[NewFlyerMCI]

2 hours ago, renardo870 said:

Check this out!

The language here seems off? I’m assuming this isn’t meant to be a public facing document?

[renardo870]

32 minutes ago, NewFlyerMCI said:

The language here seems off? I’m assuming this isn’t meant to be a public facing document?

This is just making the operators aware of upcoming changes for the Brown and Purple lines. The public will be updated when the date of the changes are finalized.

[BusHunter]

7 hours ago, renardo870 said:

This is just making the operators aware of upcoming changes for the Brown and Purple lines. The public will be updated when the date of the changes are finalized.

Also it might signal the work being performed on track 4 in the clark junction area as track 4 is now vacated.

[Sam92]

9 hours ago, NewFlyerMCI said:

The language here seems off? I’m assuming this isn’t meant to be a public facing document?

Bingo. The same as one of these pretty much

Clarendon-MichiganExp_2019-03-28.pdf

[Mr.NewFlyer1051]

2 hours ago, Sam92 said:

Bingo. The same as one of these pretty much

Clarendon-MichiganExp_2019-03-28.pdf 114.23 kB · 10 downloads

how’d you get these PDF’s lol?

[Mr.NewFlyer1051]

2 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Also it might signal the work being performed on track 4 in the clark junction area as track 4 is now vacated.

it’s gonna continue to be vacated because track 3 and 4 will be torn down soon that’s why track 4 is only for brown line trains now and purple will share with red thru wilson 

[NewFlyerMCI]

25 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

how’d you get these PDF’s lol?

IRM has database

[Mr.NewFlyer1051]

58 minutes ago, NewFlyerMCI said:

IRM has database

well i looked well into this and some of these you can find run numbers as well for ex: 

3 King Drive

Full time: 7301-7360, Block:7361-7380, PTO:7381-7420

[renardo870]

On 11/16/2021 at 10:57 PM, renardo870 said:

This is just making the operators aware of upcoming changes for the Brown and Purple lines. The public will be updated when the date of the changes are finalized.

 

[renardo870]

[Sam92]

10 hours ago, renardo870 said:

Typo? Why would purple move a track further west if they plan on shutting the 2 west tracks down? What do the southbound s do?

[NewFlyerMCI]

40 minutes ago, Sam92 said:

Typo? Why would purple move a track further west if they plan on shutting the 2 west tracks down? What do the southbound s do?

The Purple Line isn’t moving a track at all, it’s staying on Track 2 (or is 3?) where it’s been since flyover construction started

[artthouwill]

1 hour ago, NewFlyerMCI said:

The Purple Line isn’t moving a track at all, it’s staying on Track 2 (or is 3?) where it’s been since flyover construction started

Actually it's track 4 NB until Wellington, then at Barry switches to track 3 ( Red Line track) to stop at Belmont.  From there Purpleune trains will stay on track 3 until Montrose where both NB Red and Purple Line trains switch to operate on track 2 from Wilson through Bryn Mawr. The reason for staying on track 3 north of Belmont is to simplify switching.  It's easier to do 4,3,2 rather than 4,3,4,3,2.

 

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

Red-purple bypass has officially opened for service, brown line trains are using the brand new ramp as of today! How exciting is that.?

[Sam92]

10 hours ago, artthouwill said:

Actually it's track 4 NB until Wellington, then at Barry switches to track 3 ( Red Line track) to stop at Belmont.  From there Purpleune trains will stay on track 3 until Montrose where both NB Red and Purple Line trains switch to operate on track 2 from Wilson through Bryn Mawr. The reason for staying on track 3 north of Belmont is to simplify switching.  It's easier to do 4,3,2 rather than 4,3,4,3,2.

 

 

2 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said:

Red-purple bypass has officially opened for service, brown line trains are using the brand new ramp as of today! How exciting is that.?

Ok but if the two WEST TRACKS (the southbounds) are shutting down supposedly where do they get rerouted to? Unless the meant the EAST. I know you guys are right and last I checked they were working on tracks on the eastern side first. 

[artthouwill]

12 hours ago, Sam92 said:

Typo? Why would purple move a track further west if they plan on shutting the 2 west tracks down? What do the southbound s do?

I don't understand it either, unless they mean the westernmost ReSB Purple line track AND the SB Brown Line track.   Neither should have anything to do with NB Purple service 

If they were actually going to shut down the Red and Purple west tracks, then the NV trains would have to operate on track 4 so SB trains would operate in track 3.  But we know SB Rwds are unaffected which leads me to believe that they could mean the SB Brown and SB Purple tracks. So it's possible that SB Browns leaving Southport will switch to the former BB Brown Line into Clark Junction,  then after initially entering in track 2, switch to track 1 just before Belmont 

[Sam92]

8 minutes ago, artthouwill said:

I don't understand it either, unless they mean the westernmost ReSB Purple line track AND the SB Brown Line track.   Neither should have anything to do with NB Purple service 

If they were actually going to shut down the Red and Purple west tracks, then the NV trains would have to operate on track 4 so SB trains would operate in track 3.  But we know SB Rwds are unaffected which leads me to believe that they could mean the SB Brown and SB Purple tracks. So it's possible that SB Browns leaving Southport will switch to the former BB Brown Line into Clark Junction,  then after initially entering in track 2, switch to track 1 just before Belmont 

Hmm maybe. But then I did forget about the temporary 5th track and structure being used. Did they manage to get that up already and that’s what they’re referring to? 

[ChicagoNova]

 

[artthouwill]

1 hour ago, Sam92 said:

Hmm maybe. But then I did forget about the temporary 5th track and structure being used. Did they manage to get that up already and that’s what they’re referring to? 

Idk.  I will have to take a trip next week. 

[Sam92]

On 11/17/2021 at 10:53 AM, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

well i looked well into this and some of these you can find run numbers as well for ex: 

3 King Drive

Full time: 7301-7360, Block:7361-7380, PTO:7381-7420

New or old? 

[NewFlyerMCI]

3 hours ago, Sam92 said:

 

Ok but if the two WEST TRACKS (the southbounds) are shutting down supposedly where do they get rerouted to? Unless the meant the EAST. I know you guys are right and last I checked they were working on tracks on the eastern side first. 

 

3 hours ago, artthouwill said:

I don't understand it either, unless they mean the westernmost ReSB Purple line track AND the SB Brown Line track.   Neither should have anything to do with NB Purple service 

If they were actually going to shut down the Red and Purple west tracks, then the NV trains would have to operate on track 4 so SB trains would operate in track 3.  But we know SB Rwds are unaffected which leads me to believe that they could mean the SB Brown and SB Purple tracks. So it's possible that SB Browns leaving Southport will switch to the former BB Brown Line into Clark Junction,  then after initially entering in track 2, switch to track 1 just before Belmont 

This would be a lot simpler if the track configuration wasn't an annoying. I'm seeing 1 - 4 - 3 - 2 (from west to east) on a diagram but then also seeing 1 & 4 are the outer tracks and 2 & 3 are the inner tracks

[Mr.NewFlyer1051]

2 hours ago, Sam92 said:

New or old? 

still current to this day as i ride the 3 daily 

[Erin Mishkin Jr.]

On 11/17/2021 at 10:53 AM, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

well i looked well into this and some of these you can find run numbers as well for ex: 

3 King Drive

Full time: 7301-7360, Block:7361-7380, PTO:7381-7420

I thought that site had the run numbers as well