North Acca Control Point

 So somehow I managed to build and install the track at the North Acca control point without taking any pictures with either of my dSLRs. Oops.

Onto the subject at hand, the control point at North Acca is fairly complex, with a full set of crossovers between the mains, the turnout to get traffic on and off the yard bypass track from Main 3, and then access to the industrial marshaling and short departure yard through a scissors crossover.

If you are counting, that is 9 sets of points in this area, which doesn't include the 4 other sets on the marshaling yard.

All of these are fast tracks turnouts, built from Code 83 Micro Engineering rail.

This first photo is looking south, from a slightly elevated perspective. Track 2 (main) is center, Track 3 (main) is right and Track 1 (advance track) is left. In the background on the right, you see the turnout to get you to track 4, the bypass track used by Amtrak trains and high priority freight trains that don't swap cars or stop for any time beyond a crew change.

Helicopter shot of the north middle of the area.

Looking north from track 2, at track level:

Bunch more pictures on the site gallery at http://richmond-terminal.org