How did the trains reverse after the Promontory meeting?
From: "Frank Foti" fsfoti@gmail.com
... question ... regarding [the Promontory Summit] historic event. Please tell me how the trains got off the track after meeting face-to-face? Since there was no turn-around built at the time, did they run back in reverse to some point? ...
—Frank S. Foti
... question ... regarding [the Promontory Summit] historic event. Please tell me how the trains got off the track after meeting face-to-face? Since there was no turn-around built at the time, did they run back in reverse to some point? ...
—Frank S. Foti
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 8:35 PM
3 Comments:
"the Union Pacific completed their line to within one rail length of the western line, built a siding and also a 'Y.'"
A wye is used to reverse a train.
From: "Kyle Wyatt" kylekwyatt@gmail.com
Both railroads had sidings, so locomotives could run around trains and pull their cars running backwards. Union Pacific almost immediately built a wye at Promontory, and Central Pacific built a turntable a short time later.
—Kyle
From: "Frank Foti" fsfoti@gmail.com
Thanks for your timely reply regarding how the trains reversed direction at historic Promontary Point! [sic] Why is it that the "Wye" and the turnabouts are not mentioned in the history books? Again, thanks!
—Frank Foti
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