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electricron wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:31 amI didn’t say the MTA hudson line, but the Amtrak owned Empire Connection. Electrify that with 12.5 kV 25 Hz.SRich wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:58 pm Why not electrify the Amtrak empire connection with catenary. Then Amtrak can fase out the p32 dm and buy a few dual power like the NJ version.Amtrak does not own the rail corridor, MTA does for almost half the distance to Albany. MTA's trains use third rail DC to power their trains, not the high voltage AC Amtrak uses on its' catenaries. Why would MTA ever electrify their rails twice?
Jeff Smith wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:20 pm One other consideration: http://www.rethinknyc.org/through-running/It's hard to not die laughing at a proposal that in one paragraph acknowledges there are 5 different power system which in the very next paragraph suggests it can all be made "one" by changing the older AC 16 Hz lines to 25kV 60 Hz lines. There was no solution provided what they will do with all the DC lines out there!
NJT and MNRR really need to jump on this, as it's possible now. And, if they can figure it out, MNRR and LIRR.