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Re: BART's new car: Bombardier mock up at APTA |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon Oct 20 15:16:51 2014, in response to Re: BART's new car: Bombardier mock up at APTA, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Mon Oct 20 14:52:17 2014. So in my youth I lived in Chicago both some bits of summer and then after quitting college 11/2 years working in the Loop. I commuted on the (then Illinois Central, now Metra) Electric with "obsolete" 1500VDC catenary. I was late exactly once after a major blizzard when trains were running slower than scheduled.FWIW, I was back there in '67 again after an even mopre major blizzard (NYC lost all of its signals Cincy to Kankakee) due to iced wires. The IC was running, the L was not. In modern times we have multiple cases of WMATA closing down in the snow--something about snow on the third rail. In my 4 years in NYC in the late 60s, the subway always ran just slower, and of course all local on the BMT in Manhattan as the express tracks were filled w/parked trains off hours. I have no memory of the PRR shutting down in that period either. I suspect that if the catenary from DC to NH were completely rebuilt w/ state of the art design, the reliability would soar. |
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