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Article #120Re: Cheap dual mode electrification
From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 00:00
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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? 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. -- ##### |\^/| Colin R. Leech ag414 or crleech@freenet.carleton.ca ##### _|\| |/|_ Civil engineer by training, transport planner by choice. ##### > < Opinions are my own. Consider them shareware if you want. ##### >_./|\._< "If you can't return a favour, pass it on." - A.L. Brown
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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: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) Subject: Re: Cheap dual mode electrification Date: 1996/08/06 Message-ID: <4u6n18$a1s@freenet-news.carleton.ca> X-Deja-AN: 172450764 sender: ag414@freenet5.carleton.ca (Colin R. Leech) references: <31e78b2a.27255267@news.eclipse.net> <4se0la$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> organization: The National Capital FreeNet reply-to: ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) newsgroups: nyc.transit,ba.transportation,misc.transport.urban-transit,misc.transport.rail.americas