RE: [CBQ] Re: Turntable @ Belmont?

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

And again, there is no sign of a wye on the ground today or in aerial views of the area.
 
Hol

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: gamlenz@ihug.co.nz
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 08:57:07 +1200
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Turntable @ Belmont?

 

Thanks for all the comments on Belmont.

I have a newspaper report contemporaneous with the completion of the tunnel
that refers to trains reversing the length of the finished track, so there
does not appear to have been a turntable or wye prior to the track to
Crawford being completed. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley crossed
the B&MR at Crawford, and a wye was created there at some stage.

The topography of Belmont is comparatively hilly (and hence the reason for
the tunnel) with the yard being positioned between two hills. Creating a
wye for turning the two Crawford helpers would have entailed considerable
earthworks to produce a level track bed.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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