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Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat May 16 17:49:25 2015, in response to Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly, posted by steamdriven on Sat May 16 17:27:21 2015. Though a dyed in the wool B&O fan, I have great respect for the PRR for the engineering side of years ago. GG1s? just a drop dead gorgeous performer. Riding behind one at 100, that's the good stuff. Or for that matter being overtaken by one when we weren't standing stilleither. The over/under puzzle at Zoo providing for freight bypasses both S and W,the flyovers for access to yards, the whole high line over 30th St. Basically the 1930s upgrade/rebuild of the eastern lines to electrification were awesome. OTOH, when they stuck w/obsolete steam designs or built things like the duplexes when diesels were already proven, they blew it. PRR bought too much poor performing junk from second rate builders--the aluminum skinned cars for the Jeffersonian/other St Louis trains didn't hold up,Alco smokers, etc. But the Budd built cars--some of which are still running in operations smart enough to have kept them alive (hint, not scrap the heriotage fleet idiots at Amtrak). And least but not least the E44s which were awesome in person.Unfortunately, the marketing and freight operations sides were terrible in the 50s. The Red team as they were spoken of in PC times were mired in the past and chased out the Green team hotshots Perlman had hired. That next generation of RRers went west and shaped up WP, and UP and were why they merged while PC west over on Market St was snoozing. |
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