On April 4 I rode the Sprinter, the new passeneger rail service that runs on the former ATSF Escondido branch in southern California. BNSF (and SDIV) still operate freight trains in the late night/early morning hours on most of the original route.
In the short stretch of track between the Escondido Sprinter terminal and the end-of-track a couple block further east, there is a double derail - see pic. I don't recall seeing double derails before - how common are these?
Back-to-back, single-split switch, power-operated derails? Not common at all. It's designed to prevent movement in both directions, whereas typically a derail is installed to prevent movement in one direction. Note the freight cars tied down on the main track just beyond.
RWM
I would think that such an installation would be in situations like the Sprinter or NJ Transit's River Line operation and would mark the line of demarcation when the light rail equipment is in service and each type of equipment has to be kept on its own side of the line.
I think CSSHEGEWISCH has it right. CP AVO may indeed be a demarcation point.
The absence of control point signals in the photo confused me. But, when I clicked on the photo, the picture became large enough to see the dwarf signal on the left in the background.
(Great enlightening shot, by the way, MP57313! Keep them coming. K.P.)
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CSSHEGEWISCH wrote: I would think that such an installation would be in situations like the Sprinter or NJ Transit's River Line operation and would mark the line of demarcation when the light rail equipment is in service and each type of equipment has to be kept on its own side of the line.
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