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Well, Chicago union station has 10 platforms northbound. The approach is a mesmerizing grid of double slips. I always loved riding the first car in.

Southbound is probably even more so with its 14 platforms. And Ogilvy is even more effed up.

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In case anyone interested, here is my ride daily commute on North Central .
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Taking Metra home

Anton, Marina, Leon, Emma and Tzirilla photos: Taking Metra home -
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tankist said:
Well, Chicago union station has 10 platforms northbound. The approach is a mesmerizing grid of double slips. I always loved riding the first car in.

Southbound is probably even more so with its 14 platforms. And Ogilvy is even more effed up.

2vFVEUi2xUHnUD.jpg


In case anyone interested, here is my ride daily commute on North Central .
public.fotki.com

Taking Metra home

Anton, Marina, Leon, Emma and Tzirilla photos: Taking Metra home -
public.fotki.com
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Great pictures in your album
 
cv_acr said:
You've never seen a major big-city passenger terminal then.
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For the past 45 years, Joan and I have travelled exclusively on Amtrak. We've even taken Via rails. We have been on every train that Amtrak had and has (except for New England) and we have never seen a mess of track like that before and I would bet there is nothing like that in any passenger terminal. How would modern passenger cars navigate that mess
 
St. Louis Union Station used to look like that until they turned the whole area into a retail park. There is still a couple of tracks leading into the area on the side of the main train shed, but not for regular passenger service.

The Amtrak station is just outside the area where the approach tracks to the train shed used to be.
 


John from Indiana said:
For the past 45 years, Joan and I have travelled exclusively on Amtrak. We've even taken Via rails. We have been on every train that Amtrak had and has (except for New England) and we have never seen a mess of track like that before and I would bet there is nothing like that in any passenger terminal. How would modern passenger cars navigate that mess
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With ease.

The curves and angles are absolutely no where near as bad as they look with a long telephoto lens at ground level. This is the exact same spot from above.

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And you'd lose your bet pretty handily, as this is 100% absolutely a passenger terminal. That's the only place you'd see such usage of slip switches.
 
A matrix of 'double-slip' turnouts designed to allow a consist access to any number of terminal or through tracks. I can't have a layout without at least one double-slip in place. I made one years ago, still works like a hot damn, and purchased two more which also work well.
 
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St Louis. The Grand Daddy of them all. Triple wye. Served 22 railroads both east and west. Largest and busiest railroad station in the world for a while. During peak traffic it served 100,000 people a day on 300 trains.

This shows the 32 track version. In 1906, it was expanded to 42 tracks to accommodate the world's fair traffic, although I can't image where.

In 1979 I lived in a high rise, just to the north of this station, and it was so sad to see Amtrak vacate it, and just go to the dogs as the homeless population moved in and vandalize everything.
 
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