by Railjunkie
A little birdie told me NRO is a no go.
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TCurtin wrote:That's interesting.It's used for revenue service most Yankee games.
On another part of the same subject, I have recently observed on a number of occasions the wye tracks at MO (From our new home we have reason to ride the Hudson Line quite a bit) and they appear to me to be in quite lousy shape.
JimBoylan wrote:Speaking of lousy track, there is an old NYC tunnel under St. Mary's Park in the Bronx, a route that avoids going all the way up to New Rochelle to get to the NorthEast Corridor. It used to have 3rd rail.If you're talking about the Port Morris connection, it's disconnected now from the Harlem, with a platform extension from Melrose? blocking the path. AFAIK it was never used in revenue service, and has quite tight clearances/curvature. I doubt an Amfleet would make it.
JimBoylan wrote:Speaking of lousy track, there is an old NYC tunnel under St. Mary's Park in the Bronx, a route that avoids going all the way up to New Rochelle to get to the NorthEast Corridor. It used to have 3rd rail.it also no longer has rail, it has no way to connect to MO, it would connect in wrong direction on hellgate line, it also had no signalling and would not be viable for passenger operation.
Railjunkie wrote:A little birdie told me NRO is a no go.Not surprised that little birdie has been going tweet tweet tweet to you, Mr.Junkie.
...An emergency event is a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected incident or occurrence that requires an immediate reaction or assistance for emergency situations faced by the recipients of public assistance. The main purpose of such assistance is to bring the situation under control and to restore normalityThe Penn Station track work, albeit crucial, is a planned event. I'm willing to bet that MNR "powers that be" are aware of the cited definition and will suggest to Amtrak "take it elsewhere".