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Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Feb 13 11:29:38 2010, in response to Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station, posted by Dutchrailnut on Sat Feb 13 10:42:41 2010. NYP doesn't have the kickers, but I think that high number relayed by Mr. Lion is on account of a slinking switching move that's not to the nearest pair of East River Tunnels, e.g., from tk 14 heading east via interlocking C instead of via JO, or tk 17 heading east not via C but via JO. Maybe the longest gap is from JO to tk 5, but that's not one that LIRR confronts since it's on the south side of the terminal.Once I was on an 8-car LIRR train of M1s reversing through A and WSY and although the engineer didn't appear to gap the train, he did stop the head end, say, the leading 3 cars in a gap waiting for a stop signal to clear, which took several minutes, but by then the engineer's controls were unresponsive. There was some chatter with control that I didn't catch but the net effect seemed to be that the train was moved very slowly forward - in the direction that we'd been moving in - from the rear end until the head end was on third rail again. I assume that what happened was that the head pair of cars somehow couldn't sustain the power required for the engineer's control stand to be operable even though the rear of the train was powered atop third rail, but I don't know. |
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