Originally Posted by
Altair 4
What did it look like once you got to the top? Did you need to walk on the actual ties, or was there sufficient room to walk safely along side? Just curious.
Where I grew up, my friends and I walked to school (yes, it was uphill in both directions) and crossed a high pedestrian trestle over the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. Sometimes, we'd just cross the tracks and walk on the access road that followed along side of the tracks. Used to wave at the engineers when we did that. 'Course, that was a long time ago and...
https://youtu.be/r0H6u9TgjIA
That area of tracks seems to be some type of switching area or a holding section. There is a wide open area up there once you climb, some railroad related stock laying around, some small buildings etc... Not sure what others did. Me and some random other dude that got there at the same time helped each other and we walked over the two sets of tracks to the trackside road, left the bikes there and walked down that road 100 ft doing recon for a good spot to cross back over. PLENTY of room up there to get out of the way of any oncoming trains.
Google map link if you want to browse around yourself.. The red line below was recorded ride data and a little off but you get the idea.
