[Talk-us] Rail westerly

Natfoot natfoot at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 22:57:40 UTC 2014


Hey guys,
Some words of support and complication.   The usage=main is a problem, and
here is why: What people consider to be main line can not and will not be
known by looking at it in real life nor specified by whether or not it has
passenger service on it. As such you can also have main line enter a yard
disappear in yard limits and have it continue on the other side.   If you
can find a map like this
http://www.bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/carload_map.pdf you will at least
know what tracks are primarily used these may be main or branch traffic.
Branch traffic may have main track within it.   Also short line railroads
complicate as what they consider main line is different then the class one
railroads.
I wish that the railroads listed above in the open railway would have
updated from last night as I could show examples of my local knowledge and
a little more.

 Best Regards,

Nathan P.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2014, at 12:35 PM, stevea wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, I'll use owner= if known, and it is name= which displays in ORM as
> the name of the line.  Many lines had name= as the service run upon them
> (like Caltrain instead of Union Pacific), and I have corrected this where I
> know it was wrong in OSM.  But I haven't corrected all of these, just the
> ones I know.  And now I think I'll have to go back and correct name=Union
> Pacific as the name of Union Pacific's subdivision for the line that
> Caltrain is run upon: Caltrain itself should be a relation.  And so on.
> >
>
> I was under the very strong impression that the main line from San Jose to
> San Francisco is owned by the Joint Powers Board (CalTrain) and not by
> Union Pacific. I believe that there are branches off that owned by Union
> Pacific and maybe even BNSF but that the main right of way was actually
> Caltrain's. Any place one could confirm or deny that?
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