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Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Jun 10 04:01:14 2019, in response to Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains, posted by Broadway Lion on Mon Jun 10 03:37:38 2019. LIRR does not own the Atlantic Branch. That is owned by the City of New York, and LIRR is a tenant.Not true at all. If that were the case then the city would do more than simply whine about how the LIRR is effectively turning the Atlantic Branch into a shuttle when they've been wanting to turn it into an airport link for years. It is not the LIRR who gets to decide where the third rails are placed in an interlocking plant. That is the sole dominion of the geometry of the plant. That's not the point, the LIRR operates double-ended dual mode consists into Penn Station because Amtrak makes them, which obviously isn't as big of an operational obstacle in Atlantic Terminal or Grand Central where they own the trackage. Excuse the forthcoming foam, but in that regard I find it interesting how the C3 was never designed so as to allow an engineer to switchover to third rail mode from the cab, meaning that the LIRR knew that they would only be able to operate double-ended consists into Penn all the way back to when they designed that fleet, making it that much more worse that they would lie to diesel territory riders about the new fleet allowing regular hourly service into Penn with only 24 locomotives. |
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