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Re: LIRR: Third rail vs. catenary |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Dec 13 10:43:16 2006, in response to Re: LIRR: Third rail vs. catenary, posted by Brighton Private on Wed Dec 13 10:19:11 2006. why were LIRR dual-mode locos built for third rail at all? Why couldn't they run diesel as far as Harold, and then shift to overhead AC for the rest of the run into Penn Station?...I'm sure there's a sensible answer -- I'm not saying the LIRR people are idiots...It can't be that switching from DC to AC is a problem...It can't be a "cab forward" problem...I might have thought the problem related to taking AC rather than DC power, but modern diesels generate AC propulsion power anyway."It is one of the elementary principles of practical reasoning...that when the impossible has been eliminated the residuum, however improbable, must contain the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle |
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