From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com   
      
   Jishnu Mukerji  writes:   
      
   >On 12/24/2015 2:34 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:   
   >> Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Effective last Saturday all of NEC South between New York and Washington   
   >>> DC (barring about 7 miles of low speed limit trackage) is operating   
   >>> under ACSES.   
   >>   
   >> Was this done in response to the derailment on the curve north of   
   >> Philadelphia last May?   
      
   >Not specifically. This was done in response to the requirement to have   
   >ACSES deployed by the end of the year. This was planned several years back.   
      
   Now that you mention it, you reminded me that it came out during the   
   aftermath that the NEC was being upgraded at the time and ACSES was   
   either not yet installed at that curve or was installed but not yet   
   active, not having been tested yet.  I think the latter.  Thanks.   
      
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