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Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Apr 25 19:20:18 2012, in response to Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail, posted by Jersey Mike on Wed Apr 25 13:53:50 2012. It's not the safety of their freight trains, its the threat of liability when their freight trains derail onto the path of an Amtrak train.The possibility of that is pretty much the the same whether they're going 60MPH or 125MPH... Also you can't just have a single track passenger line all the way to Buffalo. CSX knows that once you have one Class 6 track it won't be long until it has to have the other ones at Class 6 standards as well and on a freight line that level of maintenance gets really expensive. Well yeah. But I thought the plan was that the third track would be dedicated to passenger trains, to allow them to pass freight trains. The two existing tracks would still also be used for passenger trains as well, probably at the current 79MPH speed. |
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