Maybe a system that Amtrak could get to reduce PAN caused wire tear downs

[blue streak 1]

system to be installed on UK's western route.  Has some continental success and Amtrak should look at this system.

https://www.railwaygazette.com/sponsored-content/camlin-supports-network-rail-with-large-scale-pantobot-3d-deployment-on-great-western-main-line/54535.article 

[charlie hebdo]

I may be wrong,  but the catenary doesn't seem to fail nearly at often in Europe,  even with higher traffic density and higher speeds. Why must we reinvent the wheel? 

[daveklepper]

I believe all of Amtrak's catenary - pantograph entanglements occured where constant-support, variable tension catenary still exists, not where consdant-tension caternary has been installed.