That shot does a great job of illustrating the complexity of that junction.
Somewhere, probably a few feet in front of that FP45, I believe there is a 3-way diamond formed from
the Santa Fe, Pennsy, and another line. Anybody out there have a shot of that?
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Three-way? At its peak, there were 26 diamonds at that crossing! Here's an excellent overview of the crossing:
http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/21street.html
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The track chart in the "Chicago Rail Junctions" website pinpoints the location of the 3-way diamond
at the intersection of the outbound Pennsy track (RR north), the outbound IC/AT&SF track (RR southwest), and
the inbound-outside track of the C&WI (that is, the track inside the curve).
A real maintenance nightmare, no doubt!
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