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Re: what do you mean by Underruning 3rd rail? (was LIRR ESA) |
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Posted by Fytton on Tue May 23 10:46:47 2006, in response to Re: what do you mean by Underruning 3rd rail? (was LIRR ESA), posted by Wado MP73 on Tue May 23 10:20:50 2006. "LIRR could learn a bit from the former Southern on how its locos dealt with third rail gaps."The gaps are much shorter than those reported in NYC in this thread. And Southern EMUs are always at least two cars (married pairs in NYC parlance) and more commonly 3,4,5 or 6 cars. Electric loco-hauled passenger trains on the Southern Electric system were always pretty rare - mostly only Dover boat trains that I can think of. The Sothern Region only had a few locos, mostly for freight, and some of those were electro-diesels (dual-modes in your terms). Incidentally the Southern system has an uncovered third rail with level crossings (grade crossings), and the third rail gaps are not even all that long even there! |
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