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Re: Biden: $2.45B loan for Amtrak upgrades in Northeast Corridor |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Aug 29 20:00:04 2016, in response to Re: Biden: $2.45B loan for Amtrak upgrades in Northeast Corridor, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Aug 29 16:23:54 2016. The thing is with higher speed trains it actually costs less to run the service. If you can get a train to Albany from NYC in 1.5 hours instead of 2.5 hours, you can run hourly service with four trainsets / crews. Operating costs actually go *down*Some fuzzy math there. How are you going to get average speed up to 94 mph when they can't even get it that high on the NEC? There is no way in heck that Metro-North is going to allow upgrades to Class 8 track and all the signaling necessary for that, never mind the electrification issues. And the more heat energy you expend, the higher costs go, not lower. Track and trains wear out faster. Albany is not that important of a destination for that level of service. If it were, they'd even go so far as to rebuild Union Station. |
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