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So the short answer is this is not going to happen anytime soon? Yet the schedule has been changed now.
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train2 wrote:So the short answer is this is not going to happen anytime soon? Yet the schedule has been changed now.Soon is a relative term. It could happen as early as late 2012 or sometime after that. There have been recent reports from folks in Pittsburgh that there has been some activity in the area where the new crossover is supposed to go in.
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Suburban Station wrote:fwiw when they moved the 44 they simply swapped it with a keystone train. I don't know that Amtrak cares if it's rush hour or not so long as it's in a keystone slotIf I recall correctly, #44 was the last train of the day eastbound from Pittsburgh to Philly and NYC. So this timing was an important slot to fill. When the westboundmoved off of the 7:30 a.m slot, Amtrak filled that with a Keystone train as well.
David Benton wrote:i quess they could borrow a sleeper from the LSL ,on the grounds that some patronage would move from it to the pittsburgh train .Plain and simple - Sunnyside needs to get rid of the "black hole."
but it seems that there are enough viewliners to have a spare 3 now , if it wernt for the 24 hour black hole at Sunnyside .
Septa Fan wrote:Does AMTRAK employ, or need to employ, helper locomotives on the Pennsylvanian between Altoona through Gallitzin ?No. It is only a 6 car train. The P42s can handle it.
boatsmate wrote:what is the limit that teh P42's can pull?? I think the F40's where linited to 7 or 8 before a second engine needed to added.I once had a P42 towing a dead P42, a dead AEM-7, an 7 cars on 66.
boatsmate wrote:what is the limit that teh P42's can pull?? I think the F40's where linited to 7 or 8 before a second engine needed to added.
David Benton wrote:Bit of a difference between level ground and a big hill ...What do they do on the Otira Tunnel these days?