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Re: Amtrak Announces Order for complete replacement of 20 Acela Express trainsets |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Dec 14 14:55:24 2012, in response to Re: Amtrak Announces Order for complete replacement of 20 Acela Express trainsets, posted by WillD on Fri Dec 14 13:30:13 2012. Maybe you do not understand what a modern train platform consists of.Yes there is a slab, and over the length of a train ground needs to be made level no matter which solution you use. Beyond that there are fences, light poles, station houses, seating, ticket vending machines, staircases and ramps even for "ground" platforms, since it is likely that they will be at a different elevation than say the parking lot. You need ramps that go over or under the tracks to serve the trains on the other platform, or if you are building an island platform, then the height of the platform is really very irrelevant since there will be extensive structure anyway. Ground level platforms, such as I am used to on Long Island, such as we have here in North Dakota cannot accommodate low floor trains in any event and will need to be built up to match the floor level of the equipment to be used. What LION says is if you must build a new station then the height of the platform is irrelevant to the overall costs of construction. LION says:Climb out of the 19th Century and join the 21st Century before you get run over by a train. ROAR |
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