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Re: How 3rd Rail Running Commuter Rail Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Feb 17 20:51:58 2015, in response to Re: How 3rd Rail Running Commuter Rail Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by ElectricTraction on Tue Feb 17 18:03:11 2015. "Imagine if the country had that kind of attitude in the 1950's. We'd have no interstate system today."You're analogy makes no sense. The original concept that motivated the inception of the interstate highway system was for national defense & paid for by Uncle Sam. The choice of electrifying railroads was based on basic bottom line economics for the railroads involved. Big difference. Back then when the railroads could afford to do that on their own, the railroads ruled the roost (no interstates & minimal air travel). In the depths of the depression, the PRR had enough $$$ to string up wire over hundreds of miles of their system & still pay a stock dividend. In adition, years ago,There was wire going to Danbury & even third rail on the Yonkers Division of the old NYCRR Put div. It was ripped up/torn down. Ask your self why. Expense maybe? So, bottom line here,welcome to 2015, who's going to pay for all this electrification you propose?? The passenger railroads nowadays are on the dole of the taxpayer. Electric trains are faster, smoother & nicer,no argument there, but far too expensive in todays economy. Diesel trains work. Not to beat the fallen horse, but just spend some time on the upper Hudson Line of MNR. Everybody is happy with what they got. The luxury of an electric train going beyond where it goes now in this country is not much more than a pipe dream. Wake up...the dream is over. |
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