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<p>[quote user="blue streak 1"]</p> <p>[quote user="Sam1"]</p> <p>Information regarding the condition of the nation’s railroad bridges is difficult to come by.  I found a GAO Report to Congress dated August 2007 that contains some insights.  The data for the report was collected, it appears, in 2006, which makes it more than eight years old or older.  Whether it is still relevant is not known.</p> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;"><strong>270+ failures to close on just 5 bridges between New Haven and Rochelle is</strong> certainly significant.  we cam  imagine that many failures are for only a few minutes ?  But any failure indicates a possible major failure later?</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><a href="http://trn.trains.com/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2014/06/Bridge%20failures%20disrupt%20Metro%20North%20service%20175%20times%20in%20Connecticut%20in%20a%20year.aspx">http://trn.trains.com/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2014/06/Bridge%20failures%20disrupt%20Metro%20North%20service%20175%20times%20in%20Connecticut%20in%20a%20year.aspx</a>  [/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;">The article says 175 times, of which 158 are attributable to three bridges.</div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;">What percentage of the times over the year did the bridges fail to close properly is the key question.  If the five bridges in question open and close an average of five times a day - I have no idea how many times they open and close, that would be 6,625 movements a year, which would put the failure rate at 2.6 per cent.  That may be too many but it is not catastrophic. </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="clear:both;">Clearly, Amtrak needs to maintain the NEC properly, at least the portions of it that Amtrak owns, which includes upgrading and/or replacing bridges.</div>
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