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Posted by WillD on Thu May 8 02:46:35 2008, in response to Re: High speed rail on the NEC-300 kmh service, posted by R42 4787 on Thu May 8 01:16:05 2008. No, it cannot without an enormous expenditure. Are you going to build another bridge over the Delaware to go to four tracks there? Now you're packing Amtrak's long distance traffic, SEPTA's commuter traffic, and CSX's trains onto a two track bridge.What makes you think you could sustain 186mph through something like the Elizabeth curves? How are you going to deal with the many low speed junctions on the NEC such as ZOO? But perhaps most importantly, why exactly do you want to shift capacity from one line to another? As I said once you remove commuter traffic from the NEC you'll be hard pressed to replace it with traffic. Why settle for a middling solution like attempting to convert the NEC and shoving traffic to the B&O when you could build a new line, likely for about the same money by the time you fix up the other two lines, and gain a dedicated high speed line. |
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