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Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Feb 10 20:58:35 2012, in response to Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station, posted by 3-9 on Fri Feb 10 20:30:00 2012. If the goal is to get MNCR into Penn Station or thereabouts, which is cheaper: cutting whole new terminals out of bedrock, or buying some extra locomotives of a known design?Neither, since neither will get any Metro-North trains into NYP. And frankly, if there were room, if it turns out that the ALP-45DPs work OK, it'd be a better thing to use those, since there wouldn't be any issues vis-à-vis push-pull operation (the wires don't have any gaps). This is from the Hudson Line, of course. The only real practical way to do it from the New Haven side is to use ALP-44s with Shoreliners. Of course, you could do absolutely nothing and it would cost you nothing (in the short run), but that's a given, isn't it? And the long run. GCT still has 67 tracks for Metro-North. NYP has 21 tracks and is only eight blocks further south. There's no need for Metro-North to throw a wrench into the system. |
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