GEC's Layout Progress

[Puddlejumper]

PRR would not put a cat pole there in that tight clearance. The span would be increased for all the tracks. Looking at Baltimore, Bayview yard, there are spans from 1 to 8 tracks at a time. At Benning Yard, D.C. the track centers were extremely tight, with no room to ride on the side of cars, presumely to be able to span all the tracks with the cat poles. You would need prolly 20 or more feet beteen trakcs to put a pole there.

Don't know what amtrak would do, it seems a lot of the common sense that the PRR electric team had has gone by the wayside.

Dave