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Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Feb 29 11:26:20 2008, in response to Re: TA is obsessed with CBTC, and ''New'' tech for no reason., posted by RonInBayside on Fri Feb 29 10:49:24 2008. This is the first I've heard of this. Elaborate? Which vendor, dates, which line? Sources?I don't have details, but let me give you what I can recall offhand. There's a brief description of the episode in LIRR's recent Nelson Assessment (Sept. 2007), available on its website. Apparently throughout the 1990's there was movement in the direction of CBTC, with maybe some work done, and of course the obligatory spending on consultants I'm sure, but it was declared a failure, and LIRR will now proceed, probably, with a cab signal system (interlocking signals still present), using color position lights, e.g., as with Speonk-Patchogue re-signaling. I think that Patchogue-Babylon will be the next segment, although I forget - it could be Speonk-Montauk. Maybe that part of the Montauk Line was going to be the scene of CBTC? I'm not sure. |
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