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Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Feb 12 22:51:41 2010, in response to Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Feb 12 22:12:29 2010. why don't they just have them with folding third rail shoes, since the M8 has pantographs?Because some genius decided it wasn't necessary to have a transformer sized for 25hz power and Amtrak tends to take a dim view of things that are constantly on fire. (Besides, been there, done that and thrown out, with the FL9.) Yes, we heard you the first half dozen times you said that in this thread. But last time I checked it's not 1957 and we got them fancy things called CAD stations that let us work things like that out. It'll probably still be a poor solution since the M8's performance on third rail is likely to be significantly worse than their performance on AC power, but it'll work until Amtrak upgrades the NEC to 60hz. |
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