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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 31 01:24:09 2011, in response to Re: Usage of Arrow III, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Oct 31 00:56:08 2011. I was talking about 3rd Rail and Catenary though. The M4 and M6 apparently can't go to Penn like the Arrows though since they can't handle 25 cycles 12.5 KV, which is weird because I also read that the older M2 could handle 25 cyclesIt was under the government agencies that the New Haven wires got switched from 25 cycles to 60. That is crazy. I rode a train past the MMC the other day and saw a conga line of ALP 44s there, I wonder if NJT is planning on retiring those prematurely too They already did. You're looking at ALP-44s that have been mothballed for maybe about ¾-year. The last ones to run were on the ACES train, apparently due to the pantograph switch in the P40DC not working with the ALP-46s, otherwise those would have been gone too. I read that crews didn't like operating Arrows when the NJCL was all 12kV for that manual door reason, what a shame, almost makes you question why NJT ordered cars it doesn't seem to fond of in the first place With the Arrows, it's a matter of why they weren't rebuilt with the long doors. The Comet III had arrived a year before the Arrows were rebuilt, with the long doors in working order. Besides, IIRC, the crews having a problem with operating the Arrows with the manual traps had to do with NJT banning the operation of the Arrows with the doors open between low-platform stations, which was a practice that dated back to before the Arrows. |
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