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Article #117Re: Cheap dual mode electrification
From: Joel Rubin
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <4u6n18$a1s@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA says...
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>Robert Coe (bob@1776.COM) writes:
>> It's an interesting idea. Presumably you could also turn it around
the
>> other way: In an electrified system you could add a generator car to
>> allow the train to operate in non-electrified territory. In fact the
>> wiring might be simpler for that arrangement than for the other. Has
it
>> ever been done anywhere?
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>Seems like there are a few systems that could benefit from such a setup:
>NJT and LIRR, for example. You could perhaps also eliminate the transfer
>from MNRR to Shore Line East at New Haven.
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I believe that the Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. "Blue Line" switches
from third-rail to overhead trolley at Airport station.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,de043cb44adf2c0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,3dcc85a9a2ce0329 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 101735,3dcc85a9a2ce0329 X-Google-Attributes: gid101735,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca13,3dcc85a9a2ce0329 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca13,public From: jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) Subject: Re: Cheap dual mode electrification Date: 1996/08/07 Message-ID: <4uai1h$cue@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 172716181 references: <31e78b2a.27255267@news.eclipse.net> <4se0la$t6a@nntp208.reach.com> <4seecl$eak@catapult.gatech.edu> <31ed740a.690956@news.eclipse.net> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960718125736.14982A-100000@alpha.fdu.edu> <AE1CD377966894FAFA@ts13-22.upenn.edu> <4tf6ha$576@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <320351ec.47462999@News-beta.TIAC.NET> <4u6n18$a1s@freenet-news.carleton.ca> organization: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism x-netcom-date: Wed Aug 07 9:59:29 AM PDT 1996 newsgroups: nyc.transit,ba.transportation,misc.transport.urban-transit,misc.transport.rail.americas