XPost: nyc.transit

On 13.10.16 15:24, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> In article ,
> hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk  wrote:
>> On 13.10.16 2:43, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> danny burstein   wrote:
>>>> [Hartford Courant]
>>>>
>>>>  17-Car Construction Train Works Its Way North,
>>>> Laying Track On Hartford Line
>>>>
>>>> With just 15 months before the Hartford Line's commuter service is due to
>>>> begin, a 17-car construction train is slowly laboring north through
>>>> Wallingford, putting down as much as a mile of track a day.
>>>
>>> It's less impressive than you might think.  That whole thing was 2 tracks,
>>> with considerable sections through industrial areas between New Haven and
>>> Meriden that actually had a continuous side track for switching, for a very
>>> long time.  It is on a deep bed of gravel over cinder over gravel that was
>>> heavily refurbished (maintaining its original width) when they reduced most
>>> of the line to single track in the mid-late 1990s.  But all the
>>> clearances are adequate for double track and then some, and they were
>>> _mostly_ careful that the new single track alignments weren't
>>> straight-down-the-middle.  This is really more like a track/tie
>>> replacement job than laying a whole new track -- think what Metro- North
>>> uses the same automation to do every few summers, beefed up.
>>>
>>> Double-track but not electrified... like the old Shore Line East service,
>>> and about the same travel time from "Fairfield County jobs".  Even with 17
>>> trains a day -- roughly one in each direction every other hour -- it's hard
>>> to believe this will be tremendously successful.
>>>
>> Do any M8s run in revenue service beyond New Haven State Street?
>
> Evidently not.  I'm a little shocked that Amtrak is still allowing them to
> run diesel service on the corridor north (east) of New Haven -- with the poor
> accelleration and 79MPH gearing of the old diesels and the frequent stops of
> the SLE service, it has to pose a nontrivial scheduling problem for Acela.
> You'd think they could have bought some beat to heck AEM7s or E60s to replace
> their beat to heck old F units, when the line was electrified.  They still
> wouldn't have matched the acceleration of the electric MUs but it'd be
better.
>
> According to
> http://passengertrainjournal.com/shore-line-east-to-go-electric-in-2018/ when
> the Springfield Line is operational in 2018, the current diesel equipment
> serving Shore Line East will be moved over and Conn DOT-owned M8 equipment
> will take over Shore Line East service.  That is expected to increase
> ridership from the current 660,000 per year.  Ponder that for a moment.  They
> are predicting 1,000,000 trips per year on the Springfield Line when the
> longstanding Shore Line East service is only at 660,000 today.  Just a little
> optimistic, don't you think?
>
>
I see. I thought that one of the reasons that they got the M8s was to
run SLE.

What's up with the M4s and M6s, BTW?

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