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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sun Oct 30 19:32:20 2011, in response to Re: Usage of Arrow III, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 30 18:47:38 2011. Maybe NJT should have converted the M&E to 11kV 25Hz instead.Yeah, but you can't blame them, they didn't expect that Amtrak would back out for whatever reason. But think about the kind of bizarre mindset in New Jersey; they had the Arrow Is back in the late 60s/early 70s, yet never thought of converting them to run on the 3kV DC so that the Erie-Lackawanna could use them. Over in France, they have MUs that can run on both 1.5kV DC and 25kV 50Hz AC; no reason to not have converted the MUs instead of bothering to convert the infrastructure. Good post, but can't the M2/M4/M6/M8 all run on two power currents too? The Arrow III is one of a kind in the tri-state area apparently, built like a commuter car, but almost accelerates and brakes as fast a subway car yet still smoothly, I'm not sure if it's because of the different power sources or different company operating procedures, but they're also much quicker than the M7. It's too bad that they can't operate the Midtown Direct locals where they'd be most ideal, and that NJT prefers to operate push-pulls on the NEC over them for whatever reason. I also don't know why NJT decided not to use the external electric destination signs they had anymore. |
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