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Re: LIRR DE/DMS Some reasons why |
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Posted by WillD on Tue Feb 26 23:44:42 2008, in response to Re: LIRR DE/DMS Some reasons why, posted by Train Dude on Tue Feb 26 23:27:26 2008. In my own boorish way, I was reminding you that you have no real credentials in this field and you are simply regurgitating snippets of info you read on the internetThat's fine. However, where else do you find this idea being espoused on the internet? Any search I do turns up previous posts I've made on the subject. This is just a few bits of basic knowledge drawn from very knowledgable folks with Amtrak, SEPTA, and NJT into a workable solution to completing the East End electrification in the lowest cost manner possible. In the end it's all pretty simple electrical engineering. I don't really care if the DE/DM30ACs are failing or not, I'm more interested in what comes after them, be it 5 years from now or 30 years from now. The DM30ACs are just the last in a long string of 5 generations of failed dual mode designs. I know you think you can make them work, and by all means feel free, but at this point why throw good money after bad? For the money the LIRR has spent on dual modes they could have fully electrified 25 years ago. People bitch about the Greenport line "not justifying electrification" yet we're pumping more money into dual modes to give those people a one seat ride to Manhattan. |
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