From: ahk@chinet.com

Stephen Sprunk  wrote:
>On 11-Apr-15 15:19, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Stephen Sprunk  wrote:
>>>On 11-Apr-15 14:28, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>>>We don't close freight railroads for weekends.

>>>Neither do we; that'd be silly.

>>>It was just the stations that were closed, to give the crews
>>>longer periods for heavy work on the platforms.  Trains still ran
>>>through every few minutes, and there were shuttle buses to/from the
>>>next stations in both directions so folks could still get where
>>>they needed to go.

>>They didn't rebuild platforms as passengers were standing on them.

>Thank you, Captain Obvious.

So why close the station?

>>They replaced half of one side at a time; took an absurdly long time.

>But ... why?

No one has given me a good answer. The time and expense of this work
was outrageous.

>DART used a week of nights to prepare, then a weekend to demolish the
>old platform and build a temporary wooden one, then a week of nights for
>more prep work, then a weekend to remove the wooden platform and build a
>new concrete and tile/brick one, and then a week of nights to clean up.
> Then the gang moved on to the next station and repeated the process; it
>took most of a year in total, but each station went _very_ quickly.

That's better.

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