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Re: LIRR to test retrofitting M7s to run off battries |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Wed Apr 21 20:23:11 2021, in response to Re: LIRR to test retrofitting M7s to run off battries, posted by The silence on Tue Apr 20 22:14:59 2021. An automobile and a fully-loaded M-7 are not exactly in the same league, but if they can pull it off, it's fine by me. I could imagine a battery-operated M-7 charging from the third rail between East Williston and Penn Station such that it would be fully charged once it leaves third rail territory and then have enough charge to get back to East Williston. Then again, the railroad's plan is to turn the Oyster Bay branch into a shuttle to Mineola, so it's a little harder to imagine the train being able to charge fully in the short distance between East Williston and Mineola, unless they plan to lay them up somewhere near Mineola between shuttle runs. That could be doable if the charging time isn't too long and they have long headways (read: junky service). |
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