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Re: South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!! |
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Posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jan 18 07:57:10 2013, in response to South Ferry (1) Train Station Fix Could Take Up To 3 YEARS!!!, posted by Gold_12th on Thu Jan 17 23:50:37 2013. But the difficulties of restoring the hardware of the station also reflect a problem facing the entire subway system: the vastly diminished reliability of the parts of the system that survived. While some equipment subjected to corrosion was quickly refurbished and brought back into service, that equipment is now much more likely to fail—and to fail sooner than it might have without exposure to floodwaters.This is what my gut feeling has been all along. You can pump out the salt water and refurbish the signals etc, but that salt water will have future repercussions. That salt water had to find its way into every crack and crevice in the tunnels etc. Finding its way to the structural steel of columns and tunnel infrastructure. This is scary. And how about the power distribution cables for the third rails ? They are old and the insulation may have cracks where voltage may just ground out stopping trains in the tunnels. Salt water is more destruction than we all have thought. Bill Newkirk |
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