From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >On Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 12:25:30 PM UTC-4, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
      
   >>I guess I don't understand what hancock's complaint is here. I mean,   
   >>ballast regulators are computerized and the ballast is laid to the   
   >>height specified within a narrow tolerance that doesn't account for   
   >>changes in level, except when it's very very fresh.   
      
   >At Princeton Jct, where the high platforms are about 20 years old, the   
   >platform is now about 6" below the level of the train car.  At other   
   >stations on _several carriers_, they had to put in step boxes to aid   
   >passengers in boarding.  FWIW, Engineers have told me that is due to   
   >increased ballast height added over the years.   
      
   So that's deliberate.   
      
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