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Bill R. wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:57 am Apparently CANNOdesign thinks so!Looks like that ought to be CANNOTdesign
PHLSpecial wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:57 am Ahhh so the MFL is switching to standard gauge , right, Right?But no catenary ... auxiliary shoes, maybe?
MACTRAXX wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:34 pm Silverliner 5 cars not only can not run on the MFL with the different track gauges - they would be too long forTo bad no one a hundred years thought that building skinny tunnels is not best idea. Now we are stuck with the Pennsylvania gauge and tunnels that are way to small. Shame that the sharp curve at York-Dauphin cant be straighten a little and have bigger tunnels so that Septa can at least buy something off the shelf. Also I hope we can get lighter trains in the future or keep at the same weight. These trains are getting heavier and heavier.
the sharp curve north of York-Dauphin Station (Front Street to Kensington Avenue) and perhaps be too tall for
the Market Street Subway tunnel - with its block wood ties atop the floorway and no 11KV overhead with any
kind of adequate clearances. The RRD MU car fleet may be too heavy anyway for the MFL elevated structures.