Delaware NEC

SteveRG · **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:28 am **Posts:** 270

Driving northbound, 495 in Delaware alongside the NE Corridor line, just north of an abandoned tower, north the Dupont plant, the tracks close to the water (I would assume) are NS feeding the plant and the ones close to the highway is used by Amtrak but then they switch. Tracks which I believe are NS go under Amtrak; the cross or fly over each other.
What exactly happens here and why? I cannot find any charts or maps on this area and I'd like to model something similar for my HO layout.
Thanks in advance

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

SteveRG wrote:

Driving northbound, 495 in Delaware alongside the NE Corridor line, just north of an abandoned tower, north the Dupont plant, the tracks close to the water (I would assume) are NS feeding the plant and the ones close to the highway is used by Amtrak but then they switch. Tracks which I believe are NS go under Amtrak; the cross or fly over each other.
What exactly happens here and why? I cannot find any charts or maps on this area and I'd like to model something similar for my HO layout.
Thanks in advance

Steve,

There is a thread on Railroad.net that talks about this:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=72722&p=814281

It is a flyover for trains heading to Edgemoor Yard, one of many on the PRR.

Rob

Mike Tillger · **Posted:** Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:43 pm

1982 interloking map can be found at the link below
http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/Amtrak/NRPC%20Bell%20Interlocking%205-8-1982.pdf

Mike Tillger