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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Oct 2 20:25:39 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Tue Oct 2 20:18:34 2007. Why? The rest of the country uses diesel for it's frieght. Every siding would need to be elctrified. That's the reason the New Haven's forward thinking catenary frieght system eventually died. Remember, the Bay Ridge Line was completely electrified with catenary when the New Haven Railroad used the Bay Ridge line for freight. What a shame the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went with third rail instead of catenary when they did their electrification projects. Remember, it's the Pennsylvania RR that brought third rail to the Long Island Railroad, as they Pennsylvania RR owned the LIRR from 1900 or so to 1966 or so..... And of course, the MTA inherited the great New Haven catenary electrification from the New Haven in it's part of Metro North, and of course the third rail from the New York Central from the other two Metro North lines. Metro North took over in 1983, and believe it or not, was in worse shape than anyone can imagine today. Conrail had operated that commuter service (under grudge) until 1983 when Conrail was finally able to "dump it" on the MYA. |
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