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Re: ''Feds Probe Safety Concerns On LIRR’s Cannonball Express'' |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Tue Aug 18 21:01:54 2015, in response to Re: ''Feds Probe Safety Concerns On LIRR’s Cannonball Express'', posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Aug 18 20:38:14 2015. They don't have anywhere close to enough equipment. The LIRR is a mess. Reading The Long Island Railroad Today blog is fascinating, but kind of depressing too, as it shows just how much of a mess the LIRR is, and how little margin for error they have left themselves with. They don't have enough equipment, enough electrification, enough tracks, enough anything.Also, pax equipment can't necessarily scale like BNSF's freights. There's HEP, and the ability to get out of it's own way. Those freights can't get out of their own ways. Nowhere close. And Amtrak's HEP system, which may be beefier, seems to be limited at something like 18 cars on the AutoTrain. |
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