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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 17 21:08:07 2012, in response to Re: NY Senate Urges MTA To Reject Proposal To cut LIRR service into Penn Station, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Feb 17 18:12:07 2012. Wow, that's all pipe-dream stuff.Amtrak wise, it's about the same as the Keystone Corridor No, it's a lot less frequent. and, this would allow the M8s to run in place of the diesel sets on the Poughkeepsie runs You're joking, right? First of all, what M8s; second, you've got the low platforms at Manitou and Poughkeepsie (the latter not in revenue service but could be used as a reserve); third, you're implying that you'll still have duplicate third-rail infrastructure up to Croton-Harmon for the M3As and M7As, which is absurd and a real waste of dough. And the tracks north of Poughkeepsie would be relatively easy to upgrade to 125MPH speeds, so the AEM-7s can be used to their full potential Eh? Amtrak's ready to retire the AEM-7s in favor of the ACS-64s, for one; for another, no railroad outside the NEC has ever seen Class 7 tracks (no, not even the Keystone Corridor) and the current plans according to the FRA are for no faster than 110 mph (Class 6) . . . and for still another, unless you double the number of trains to Albany and beyond, it's still not nearly enough to justify all this electrification and re-electrification. The only thing that would justify it at all is, on top of increasing the NYP-ALB service, total changeover by Metro-North from third rail to overhead. |
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