From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   On 11/14/2014 6:21 PM, Peter Schleifer wrote:   
   > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:36:41 -0500, "conklin"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "Stephen Sprunk"  wrote in message   
   >> news:m42shg$18k$2@dont-email.me...   
   >>   
   >>> Trains have the option of adding more cars, which is both more flexible   
   >>> and more cost-effective than replacing small planes with big planes.   
   >>   
   >>  I rather suspect that the slots cannot be increased in the Washington-DC   
   >> corridor, or even to Boston.   
   >   
   > Which is not relevant to the option of adding more cars to existing   
   > trains running in the same slots.   
      
   The only segment of the NEC south that is truly slot restricted at   
   present is the segment between Swift interlocking and New York Penn   
   Station, and that too only at certain hours of the day in a single   
   direction.   
      
   Amtrak can easily increase its capacity on the NEC Regionals by 50%   
   without requiring any new slots, just by adding cars to their trains   
   that would still continue to fit at the platforms at the major stops.   
   For the Acelas they could almost double the capacity, provided they had   
   the cars, without requiring any extra slots.   
      
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