Thor Lancelot Simon wrote to hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: If only
we had one of these in the NYC area

 >>>> 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.

I was watching this the other day.  Quite impressive how theye pick
the single length rail up and the machine puts down a tie then puts
the rail in and ties it down.  They still need to come through and
guage the rail because it not totally straight but straight enough for
the maching and a duel end loco to move over it.  Got some pictures of
that and aslo a P&W and Amtrak freight loco sitting south of the
operation.



 >>> 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.


Would be too expensive to electrify the rail form New Haven to Hartford
or Springfied.  They also don't have enought property in places and
some overhead clearances are not enough.


 TLS> >> >Do any M8s run in revenue service beyond New Haven State
 TLS> Street?

No none at all.  The wires go far enough back just to go to the State Street
station and also to be able to stage trains or locmotivies for change out
at Union Station.


 -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

That's all for now!

Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 16-Oct-2016 at 8:33.
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