Getting Real Column - 10
track – no way!). I’m modeling the CV’s climb over the Green
Mountains – but I’m planning on doing it without any grades
at all. They play havoc with tractive effort, can cause opera-
tional issues with vertical transitions, and can even cause
issues with structures and industries (with spurs on grades).
I've concluded that in most cases grades are simply more
trouble than they're worth.
And the simplicity of visible, open, staging is extremely appeal-
ing to me.
8
8: It’s been a little more than two years since the exten-
sive rebuilding started. There’s still a long way to go, but
at long last parts of the CV Winooski Sub are looking
less like a construction zone and more like a railroad.
MRH-Mar 2013
