by EuroStar
The N and the Q finally made it across the Manhattan Bridge tonight. Great job MTA! Many thanks to all the people who worked tirelessly to restore our subway system!
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Kamen Rider wrote:the system is fed through the local substations, each of which has a set area that it feeds power to.So how many traction power stations are there? If the one feeding [area] goes down; is any train along [area] trapped until that power station is back up?
Kamen Rider wrote:When the metro lost power in the district, they didn't the local main power stations doing this...Not sure what you mean here?
Kamen Rider wrote: What I was trying to say is that Downtown DC lost power, it simply lost the transmission system. New York lost the abilty to generate power for a while for the affected areas.Actually, the 1992 outage was caused when the closest generation plant to DC, the Potomac River Generating Station in Alexandria, dropped off line after 335 MW of its load was suddenly shed. It could have recovered but its frequency meter was stuck, so staff was unknowingly doing the wrong things. {There is an interesting FERC report....]
And they you come bouncing along with your little ideas, not listing to anyone who has acutaly had some experince with the subway and how things work in the largest, most complicated system in the country.
farecard wrote:I don't comprehend that sentence either.Kamen Rider wrote:When the metro lost power in the district, they didn't the local main power stations doing this...Not sure what you mean here?