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Re: Massachusetts state senate backs plan to electrify MBTA Providence and Fairmount commuter lines |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat May 19 03:30:50 2018, in response to Re: Massachusetts state senate backs plan to electrify MBTA Providence and Fairmount commuter lines, posted by Olog-hai on Fri May 18 06:39:31 2018. Also forgot to mention that RER's top speed is now 75 miles per hour, slower than the LIRR.It's actually 140 km/h which makes it faster than the LIRR. And their multiple units don't take off like snails. :-P FWIW, RER A has some slow portions with lots of 90 km/h zones, but it's not as if the LIRR would run faster in those cases. The branches aren't 80 mph runs, nor are some of the local runs on the Babylon where my GPS hasn't seen 80 mph in ages... And it only reached that milestone in 2011 when the MI-09 cars came on line. IIRC, the MI79s/Z8100s have been capable of 140 km/h operation for some time, and those units date to 1980. IIRC, only the MS61s were 100 km/h units, and those things were restricted to local runs on RER A. |
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