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I'm sure this map will have to be updated https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 393805&z=8

daybeers wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:06 pm I'm sure this map will have to be updated https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 393805&z=8

Definitely needs some updating. My Acela hit 135 en route from Baltimore to Philly. That map shows the whole section with a max of 125.

Northern Maryland and up to Newark, DE has been 130 with a short stretch of 135 for many years.

daybeers wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:06 pm I'm sure this map will have to be updated https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 393805&z=8

Yeah, I'll update that someday if I get a look at a recent ETT. I think I made it using a 2012 copy.

The EGE wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 4:25 pm

daybeers wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:06 pm I'm sure this map will have to be updated https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 393805&z=8

Yeah, I'll update that someday if I get a look at a recent ETT. I think I made it using a 2012 copy.

Cool!

The EGE wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 4:25 pm

daybeers wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:06 pm I'm sure this map will have to be updated https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... 393805&z=8

Yeah, I'll update that someday if I get a look at a recent ETT. I think I made it using a 2012 copy.

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Fan Railer wrote:

Matt Johnson wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 7:56 pm Great news regarding Acela II. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that they spent all that money putting up new constant tension catenary in the Princeton Junction area before figuring that out, haha!

Probably still a good investment. Constant tension still provides better performance through a wider variety of temperatures vs the standard catenary setup.

On a different note, over in the Disposition thread, the question was posed about how much extra mileage would be rated for 160/150 with the new trainsets, so I broke out the employee timetable and did some math:

Current 150 Territory:
[17.4] MP 154.3 to MP 171.7 (Kingston to Davisville)
[5.6] MP 174.5 to MP 180.1 (TF Green area)
[10.5] MP 194.5 to MP 205 (Attleboro to Mansfield)

Total: 33.5 miles

Future 150/160 Territory (inclusive of above):
[22.9] MP 32.8 to MP 55.7 (COUNTY to HAM)
[21.3] MP 29.7 to MP 51.0 (RAGAN to BACON)
[6.3] MP 51.0 to MP 57.3 (BACON to PRINCE)*
[13.5] MP 205.0 to MP 218.5 (Mansfield to RTE 128)*

*Currently 130 mph (non-curve restriction), may only upgrade to 145 mph or 150 mph.

Total (inclusive of current 150 territory): 97.5 miles (77.7 miles without * territories)

Pretty stunning development with regards to speeds. Totally unexpected. I would imagine this potential upgrade will require some high speed trial runs across affected mileage. This has the potential for *major* effects on Amtrak's market share over the next 20 years in the NEC air-rail service basket.

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Trainset 2 is running back up to Boston for more testing this week. Should return to Philly by the end of the week.


Attached are a few close-ups of the pantograph modifications.

Are the changes helping?

Apparently, they flipped the pan as they were going through MILL just past midnight; train will need repairs now.

Ouch! But better now than later!

Just saw Avelia trainset 2 leaving South Station for Southhampton St around 9 pm ET. First time seeing it, a couple of thoughts:

- the nose is much more streamlined than the AX-1 sets… makes a really nice impression in the station

- SO much quieter than the AX-1 sets, which always seem to put the blowers on “max” before leaving. About as loud as a Type 8 leaving a station.

Can’t wait to see more of these in person!

Have the trainsets continued to be delivered (completed-except-for-the-pantograph-mods)? OR are there still supply chain problems?

One set continues to hang around Philadelphia. It seems to move around as it changes the track it is sitting on in the Penn Coach Yard.

Still on target for Acela 23 now, the thing still has a boatload of problems being worked out…