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Re: FRA ''preferred'' replacement Amtrak/MARC Baltimore tunnel now up to $4 billion |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 2 20:29:07 2016, in response to Re: FRA ''preferred'' replacement Amtrak/MARC Baltimore tunnel now up to $4 billion, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Dec 2 20:22:32 2016. If they can build these new gateway tunnels to the same height, perhaps we can get high-level boarding versions of the roomy Superliners for NE Amtrak travelAbsurd notion since the Superliners are low floor by definition and there are other low-clearance locations on the NEC anyhow, including inside NYP and the East River Tunnels (can't get them to Sunnyside Yard very easily, can you). And having been aboard them, they aren't all that roomy, and they are just about all restricted to 100 mph. The time to think of low-floor Northeastern passenger stock was before the high-platform-building craze, and that kicked off long before I was born. If the then-few high platforms were instead converted to low (mostly at certain terminals and major through stations), then the NEC's high-speed trains could have all been Talgos. |
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