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I am curious if any experiments were done to increase locomotive traction in ways other than weighing down the engine for adhesion and spreading the effort over multiple engines and using sand. Have other ways been explored, such as wheels with friction treads?
What about those grafitti-covered coaches along the NEC in Pennsylvania?
I really think we should reject the whole "Nixon-conspired-to-fail-Amtrak" theory. History doesn't add this up. I sure would like to know how they were able to immediately purchase Turboliners and continue the Metroliner if that were really true. And the E-series electrics, and AEM-7, and Amfleet series one and two, and Viewliner, and Superliner. Oh, and while I'm at it, allowing a pro-passenger-rail firebrand like the great Graham Claytor to run the system at all. I really think
Edblysard, while I agree in principle about single-track lines constraining speeds, in actuality it is very untrue. I remind us about passing sidings and CTC scheduling that make passenger trains actually go faster than freight on the same line. Even the shoestring local commuter lines here in DC have spent mililons to build sidings and triple-track segments to make trains, for the most part, blow right past the freight. Incidentally, why would you schedule a passenger train to follow a long drag
I was sitting in a restaurant and the TV had a news piece that detailed airline subsidies of unprofitable routes. One 300-mile trip, with a ticket cost of $220, had a subsidy of $4,200 per seat. This was on Fox News Channel, if I recall correctly. That's a $4,550 airplane trip between city pairs in the backwater midwest. Now THAT's a subsidy.
Wow, I can get a steel caboose for $5,000. And that $25K Southern Railway caboose is in a parking lot in Gainesville, VA, a few hundred yards from Norfolk Southern tracks. I've visited it but never seen the interior. I presume that OMR is brokering the transaction.
Don that picture is out of date. There are now panels falling out of the ceiling and the door at the end constantly opens and closes itself at random. Oh, and the flourescent lamps are all different colors now. While I'm at it, NO CHECKED BAGGAGE on Acela.
Someone said that nuclear power plants really increase the temperature of the atmosphere. I presume through the steam coming out of coolant towers. Really?? That sounds impossible.
Great post! I, for one, believe that the cost of initial electrification is grossly over-exaggerated. It should be amortized over the life of the railroad. I'd be delighted to hear what the amortized cost of the PRR's 1930s electrification is.
You left out tolls on that car trip. Add another $40 or $50 depending on which river crossing you choose to NYC.
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