by RAY
..... all seem intent nowadays on painting the New Haven main line as being woefully inadequate in terms of maintenance and modernity. Yet in my lifetime 39-ft rail has been replaced by welded, antiquated semaphores gave way to cab and dwarf signals, the Pequonnock moveable bridge (a huge project that even required a shoo-fly) was totally replaced, all stations were upgraded and fitted with high level well-lit platforms, the max passenger train speed was raised from 70 to 75 MPH, and for a brief season the speed limit from New Haven west towards New York was raised to 90 MPH for low-center-of-gravity trains like ACF's John Quincy Adams (Talgo) and Pullman-Standard's Dan'l Webster (Train X).