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Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2 If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would! Someone pointed out awhile back that overspeed was...

This may be untrue, but I read somewhere that the automatic train stop system installed by PRR in the 1930's was deactivated by Amtrak higher-ups because they feared that an accidental sudden stop would be "disturbing" to passengers. Only in the spot that I'm referring to... that's what I...

Second guilty person was Amtrak not activating ATC cab 60 speed at signal before Frankford going northbound. but it was active going south. Remember PRR had an overspeed crash there during WW-2 If a GG-1 could do it most certainly a Sprinter would! Speaking of that, it's been said here and elsewher...

mcgrath618 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 3:47 pm Not guilty.

https://abc7ny.com/philadelphia-amtrak- ... /11619333/

Likely not violated. The right protects only against delays caused by the government, i.e., the prosecution causing an unreasonable delay. Based upon everything I have read, the delays were the result of defense counsel contesting and appealing the the attempts by the prosecution to bring the defen...

Taking note of this I will ask again four words: **Who Threw The Rock?** MACTRAXX As is the case with most incidents like this... the simple answer is "we will never know." Simply because the perpetrators in cases like this rarely stick around to see the results and are long gone before p...

How many M-8s will CT DOT modify with tap changing transformers that will be required for Amtrak's 25 kV CAT? Or are the next deliveries having that option? None. The M8's can already automatically switch between Metro-North's 12.5kv and Amtrak's 25Kv voltage (which was done with several test runs ...

I always did question the wisdom of why in the world (with the MBB and Bombardier 1600/600-series orders), did the MBTA order them virturally on a 1:1 cab to trailer ratio. 33/34 for MBB and 53/52 for the Bombardier fleet. Though in a way, one would think that balanced out, what with the 350-series ...

Metro-North has all high-level platforms except for a station or four in the diesel zone (two of which see only weekend service by a handful of trains to serve the Appalachian Trail), so traps are not an issue for them as far as EMU's are concerned. But it was because of the trucks that the doors on...

Here's an idea I haven't really seen floating around: Why not a refurbishment? Carbodies are often the most expensive part of fleet acquisition, and despite their age the S4s aren't having any structural problems. I know of quite a few places that could tackle such a contract (even one that is conv...

Currently, they can only field 6 sets of push-pull equipment (6 cars each) for a total of 36 cars. A 7th set would be held as a spare, leaving 3 more cars as spares. And on the current schedule, there are 6 push-pull sets out in the weekday peak rotation. They have not been out over the last week an...

Does anyone know what routes will these multi-levels will be used on? Basically, the routes/trips the Bombardier sets would have been running on (pre-COVID), with those sets cascading to other express trips throughout the system, no doubt. But now, all bets are off. I'd figure them on runs similar ...

Does anybody know the status of the 66/94 (idk which) additional M8s coming into service and what they will be used for. Was SLE use planned with these cars and how many cars of the fleet will be earmarked for SLE? I would personally not be surprised if all of them go into the Metro-North pool with...

Also I talked to a septa worker on instagram about the Silverliner 6/Multi level EMU and he said that septa is not buying that cause that would require millions of dollars to spent on redoing all the tunnels especially university city tunnel that dumps into 30th street station and the suburban to j...

The difference though between the Acelas and M8s is the position of the doors. The Acelas have doors at the ends of the cars which puts them closer to the platform on the curve, the M8s have doors at the "quarter point" which puts the doors farther from the platform in a curve. And that d...