Well, we will find out tomorrow, 26 September, if the BNSF flyover in Claremore is to be built. Anouncement to be made at 9 AM by ODOT and the usual politicians.
They did one in Topeka Kansas. When I was there it was still being built(in 2006)
But here in Little Rock they won’t do one since it skims downtown and it would be silly(not to mention that it goes through the hood)
You’ll have to pardon my ingnorance on this one. Who’s flying over what in Claremore, OK?
Is it BNSF Avard-Springfield going over/under BNSF KC - DFW??
Thx
Stack
In Claremore a Union Pacific (ex MP) line from KC to Muskogee, DFW and Little Rock crosses a BNSF (ex Frisco) line from KC and St. Louis to Tulsa, DFW and Avard. I believe the UP line is mostly northbound running, with southbound traffic on the parallel ex MKT line to the east.
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I can’t imagine that they would want to spend the millions of dollars it would take to build a fly over bridge over the Coffeyville Sub.
Dave H.
In Bossier City, LA the KCS would stop trains right in the way of a 4 lane highway. Traffic would get stuck for 15 minutes(including me once), so they built a flyover.
Are we talking OVERPASS, not flyover?? An overpass separates trucks and automobiles from tracks while a flyover separates two railroad tracks.
I don’t recall hearing the word “flyover” used to describe a grade separation between two railroads until those large bridges were built in Kansas City (or perhaps the one in Grand Island, Nebraska). I may have seen it in connection with some junctions on the PRR in the Northeast Corridor area.
Or was I just not paying attention?
Somehow, it seems too dramatic for just lifting one railroad track over another.
I agree. It sounds a bit grandiose. Sort of like “light rail” instead of “street car” or “trolley.” It may be a highway engineering term.
John Timm