daveklepperAmtrak needs a new Chief and as soon as possible!
E. Hunter Harrison to the rescue? Shoot, the way things are going, maybe they ought to give him a shot.
Chairman Emeritus! Amtrak might even benefit thru the Spinnolio effect!
The latest SFe ETT for the Dodge City-Raton line (4/27/86) shows ATC only as far as MP 635.8--just east Trinidad, nothing better than CTC from there to Raton--23.7 miles. Somewhere, I have an ETT that goes on to Belen?, but I do not recall if there is ATC before the Northern line joins the Southern Transcon.. And, I doubt if ATC has been installed on tht stretch in the succeeding years.
MC, do you have any more information?
Johnny
I erred; the line has ATS, not ATC.
I just looked further in that ETT; the CTC extended to Springer (mp 699.4),;then there was ABS to Gise (mp 811.0, CTC to Lamy (mp 835.2; and then ATS on into Albuquerque.
Even without ATS, even without block signals and dispatched purely by train order, a single-track light-traffic railroad is a lot lot safer than a public highway where buses would share lanes with general traffic,
How many injuries or deaths have occured on the Raton Pass railroad line and how many on the parllel highway over the past ten years?
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