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Re: Future MNR New Haven Line Service to Penn Station |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sat Feb 13 15:21:21 2010, in response to Re: Future MNR New Haven Line Service to Penn Station, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Feb 13 15:10:08 2010. That's a great irony in the face of the LIRR being a PRR company for a long time too; the LIRR should have electrified using overhead.Mostly it's just the fact of LIRR getting the third rail in earlier over a lot of its network and the fact that LIRR was a branch off the mainline, instead of a mainline. I'm sure that if the fabled cross-sound bridge had been built, then AC electrification would have replaced the DC, but that's not how history turned out. History aside, though,I do think that we have an opportunity over the next decades to do something positive. LIRR's power systems will need to gradually be replaced or retired. Since the latter won't happen, and since completion of electrification remains a goal, AC electrification of unelectrified territory and gradual AC replacement of DC electrified territory seems the way to go. As for the issue with the Atlantic Line west of Jamaica, just give it to NYCT; clearance problem solved. The problem would remain ESA, though. Alas the geniuses at the early MTA never foresaw the need for more height clearance than M1s required. So at least some of the fleet, if not all of it, would have to be able to work off both AC catenary and DC third rail. |
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