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Track diagrams
Posted by andrew s rosenfield on Sunday, February 21, 2021 9:15 PM

Where can I find track diagrams of the Alaska Railroad and Florida East Coast Railroad?

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Posted by jeffhergert on Monday, February 22, 2021 1:49 PM

Here's something for the FEC.  FEC Track Chart 1996.pdf (multimodalways.org) 

The Multimodal site has an Alaska RR employee timetable on it.  It has within the ETT subdivision grade profiles.  If that's what you want, here's the link.  3_toc (multimodalways.org)  There's also a general order available that shows some changes to track layout, but not for the entire railroad.

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Posted by DSchmitt on Monday, February 22, 2021 4:21 PM

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Posted by caldreamer on Monday, February 22, 2021 4:38 PM

I have both the Alaska and FEC track charts.  If you email me off list at igoldberg1@comcast.net I will send them to you.

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, February 22, 2021 9:27 PM

jeffhergert
Here's something for the FEC.  FEC Track Chart 1996.pdf (multimodalways.org) 

The Multimodal site has an Alaska RR employee timetable on it.  It has within the ETT subdivision grade profiles.  If that's what you want, here's the link.  3_toc (multimodalways.org)  There's also a general order available that shows some changes to track layout, but not for the entire railroad.

Jeff

Looking at the FEC track chart it is apparent that they did very little 'engineering' in laying out the line - build bridges over waterways and lay the track on the ground.  Multiple undulations large and small with very few of the being sustained for any distance.  Max grade being approximately 0.3%

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Posted by MMLDelete on Monday, February 22, 2021 9:30 PM

Those must be the two farthest-apart railroads in the continental US!

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