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Re: AMTRAK POWER ELECTRIC

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Apr 16 23:37:48 2024, in response to Re: AMTRAK POWER ELECTRIC, posted by Bill West on Tue Apr 16 22:00:12 2024.

Amtrak just never had the money to convert the PRR

Yes they did; they just spent it on other things. Like the extravagant electrification east/north of New Haven that could have waited and did not deliver the promised three-hour trip from NYP to BOS anyway (which is a 75-mph average speed anyhow).

I'd settle for keeping the legacy voltage/frequency and just converting to constant tension, so one of the main excuses to not run the high-speed trains faster than 125 mph goes away (the other might be "Class 8 track").

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