@Big Jim posted:Contrary to what Hot Water wrote, every time on my district that the ballast was disturbed, read that EVERYTIME, there was a slow order over that part of the track for a determined number of trains in order for the track to settle in. Usually with a major disturbance, it started as a 10mph slow order, then increasing to 25mph, then track speed. Less intensive trackwork may have only called for a 25mphslow order. But, there was always a slow order.
That may very well be the policy on a freight only rail line, but such a practice in the Chicago area on multiple track main lines with hundreds of commuter/passenger trains plus lots and lots of intermodal & freight trains, would NEVER be tolerated .
