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Re: Future MNR New Haven Line Service to Penn Station |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Feb 12 23:24:52 2010, in response to Re: Future MNR New Haven Line Service to Penn Station, posted by fisk ave jim on Fri Feb 12 19:05:56 2010. Doesn't have to be all that complicated. If the M8s don't pan out (and maybe even if they do) just tag a few extra locomotives onto NJT's ALP46A order and make a dedicated NYP to New Haven or New London fleet. NYP is only going to gain the space for at most 5 trains during the morning and evening peaks, and I'd imagine Amtrak may add an Empire Corridor run. Thus they'd really only need maybe 6 ALP46As and about 35-40 push pull coaches. It'd be really nice if they could find a way to stash some cars in NYP and run those trains during the day in a frequent service up to the Co-op City stations. An ALP46A with 5 to 6 coaches should have about the same performance as an M8.Course if MN and SEPTA could have just unified their order MN would have gotten an EMU with 3-4 real streams per side instead of this "three streams divided by two door" garbage the MTA keeps purchasing. And they would have gotten EMUs which were already designed with 25hz capability, so operation into NYP would simply be a matter of installing a proven retractable shoe design instead of an unproven variable position shoe. |
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