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Re: Staten Island rail tunnel. |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Oct 25 12:31:24 2016, in response to Re: Staten Island rail tunnel., posted by Joe V on Mon Oct 24 18:02:15 2016. That's not what AlM was talking about in this subthread. He said"And consider the much cheaper alternative, which is to improve the trackage on both sides of the Hudson. Then assemble a daily train bound for LI somewhere in North Jersey and send it direct to a yard in LI. Get the same time savings for far less money."He specifically was referencing a shuttle train assembled from trucks arriving in NJ and going to LI via Selkirk. Discussing intermodal operations in the rest of the country does not apply to his proposal. A captive pool of equipment could easily be purchased which would be compatible with every aspect of the trip between NJ, LI and back. And even then you're vastly underestimating the freight railroads' ability to tailor their rolling stock allocation to the loading gauge of a given route. Both CSX and NS still have portions of their network which cannot accommodate AAR Plate H clearances, yet they manage to run intermodal traffic into those locations without incident. |
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