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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