04-13-2019, 10:23 PM
(04-13-2019, 07:38 PM)BR60103 Wrote: Some railroads were real cheapies, especially with bridges.
CN built a Toronto bypass in the 60s and the bridge over the Humber river had a gauntlet the last time I was detoured over it (probably in the 90s). That was for a double track mainline.
The line farther west seemed to be single track with passing sidings between the bridges over rivers; bridges over roads were paid for by the roads department and were double track width.
In your case, it might depend on whether your roads need to interchange cars at that point.
my road interchanges with the sf the rg serves two or three costumers in town and tracks dead-end there the sf goes on (backdown to hidden storage yard ). the sf curves before bridge the rg goes straight my road joins up with the sf about 18 inches before the bridge sf goes into tunnel down to storage yard . the reason I was leaning toward the gauntlet was it would eliminate 2 turnouts and maintaining them for me and the roads.