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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