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davidp wrote:no crossovers exist north (east?) of EWR

Another video, with a better broadside view

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Think the Charger is 2 feet lower than the P42 next to it?

Why did anyone want it to be 12 ft 6 inches high? What's the point?

AT&SF mileposts in the LA area were mostly from zero at Barstow-- so LA itself was 140-something. (Third District was zero at San Bernardino, tho.)

The minimum clearance between a live wire and a working surface, in this case the top of the rail cars, or th rail cars envelope, to the live wire, is 9 feet for voltages between 7,501 Volts and 35,000 Volts. NJT's 25 kV wire isn't always 9 feet above the top of the passenger cars. At Summit the wi...

TheBoyFromNewYorkCity wrote:How many of the poles on today's NEC do you guys think are original?

The 1935 timetable shows DC third rail on the Montauk from Fresh Pond to Babylon; the 1938 says no third rail west of Jay. Anyone seen a pic of third rail west of Jay?

What line were the third-rail-powered PRR MP54s built to run on?

Did they run on third rail to PRR Exchange Place? If so, why did that line have third rail? When did it lose it?

in 1910, the ferry service was replaced with two railroad shuttles using MU cars. One operated hourly by the PRR from Exchange Place to Penn Station, and the other operated by the LIRR from Penn Station to Brooklyn The MUs were H&M cars out of underground Exchange Place? And they ran to NY Penn...

New theory: the building near the right edge of the pic isn't the Chrysler or the ESB. Maybe the Woodstock tower, on the south side of 42nd betw 1st and 2nd Ave. Most likely the churchspire is the one at 40.743177N 73.95376W, and I'm guessing the short tower right of it is the one at 40.74313N 73.95...

No reason to think that's the Empire State Bldg near the right edge of the pic. If it is, then what are those two stacks just right of the billboard? I'm guessing it's the Chrysler near the right edge, and the two stacks are on the Waterside power plant around 40th-41st St, visible here https://www....

Assume this is too late to matter, but:

How about staying next to Emeryville Amtrak station? Free shuttle to MacArthur BART-- emerygoround.com

If the loads are rolling gently downhill, say 0.2% would be nice, they might well use less fuel than the empties returning upgrade. The guy didn't say what territory he was talking about, did he?

No reason to think empties use more fuel on the level than loads on the level, at the same speed.

As everyone knows, the trains that carried passengers from LI City to Jamaica via the Montauk usually continued to Oyster Bay. I was surprised to see that in summer 1956 a Speonk train, and, five minutes later, a Farmingdale train ran to Jamaica via the Montauk. But looks like they weren't supposed ...

bharatrao wrote:Either this was added relatively recently...

And trains on the outside tracks are never allowed more than... 110? If the two center tracks are 125 mph for Amtrak the outside tracks are likely 100.