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Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 8 20:45:31 2019, in response to Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains, posted by Osmosis Jones on Sat Jun 8 17:33:52 2019.

buying dual mode rolling stock that can go anywhere in the system would be the economical solution

Not necessarily economical when additional maintenance costs and higher frequency of failures are brought into account.

and would allow for similar service increases, like daily and hourly direct service from Port Jefferson to Grand Central

You're never going to have a 12' 8" max height dual-mode locomotive, and LIRR is not ever going to buy single-level push-pull cars that fit through the 63rd Street tunnels. Only way you'd have GCT-PJ trains is if the canceled electrification to PJ happens again—presuming GCT (already ten years late in first projected opening and costing over three times more than estimated; the tunnels are already there, remember!) even opens.

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