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Re: How 3rd Rail Running Commuter Rail Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Tue Feb 17 18:20:07 2015, in response to Re: How 3rd Rail Running Commuter Rail Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by pragmatist on Mon Feb 16 20:54:16 2015. 1. Amtrak is likely to get Sprinter-based DMs anyway, and not use the 3rd rail kludges. That would allow them to run them through New Haven, Harrisburg, Washington, and north out of NYP, and give them a true DM fleet that provides a fully functional locomotive in both E and D modes, much like the ALP45DP. They would just work that much better with overhead wire to Albany.2. They already do engine changes at New Haven, Harrisburg, and Washington, as well as Albany, and at one point in Philly when they were short on electrics. It's a known quantity, and their long distance trains running southern routes out of NYP really fly on the corridor with electrics. 3. I'm imagining this as a step towards a national electrified rail superhighway, which would involve, among other lines, the NYC Water Level Route from ALB to CHI and the Pensey Main from HAR to CHI, with the sections to NYC acting as feeders, and both routes being fully re-quad-tracked NYC (area)-CHI. Also, electrifying Albany to Worcester for freight, and Worcester to Boston for commuter rail would make sense, which would allow the LSL to get from BOS to CHI under the wire. That would still, however, leave lines to the north requiring DMs or engine changes. |
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