by RandallW
Prior moves have had an engine at each of the Acela II being moved as (I think) the move requires the train change direction at some point.
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CraigDK wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 10:46 am That should be the move to pick up the next Acela II set.You're right, delivery being made, caught by the Fairport NY Virtual Railfan cam.
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RandallW wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 12:19 pm Prior moves have had an engine at each of the Acela II being moved as (I think) the move requires the train change direction at some point.The Virtual Railfan camera shows that the two engines were together, but back-to-back, so there was not an extended reversing move, but (I'm guessing here) there was no place to turn a single engine sufficiently close to the Alstom plant.
videobruce wrote: ↑Sat Oct 08, 2022 12:39 pmWhy not just have the NS tow them down to Amtrak?It may be that Norfolk Southern's charge for a pilot is less than their charge for a special train. I haven't looked at those charges since I retired 11 years ago, but passenger equipment in freight train service may include a requirement that the customer provide insurance against damage, to protect the freight railroad from paying due to poor handling by its own crews. No matter what the price, Amtrak may think that its own crews will be kinder to the equipment.
Let me get this straight: Two engines and a passenger/office car?It was a standard coach as far as I could tell with the 2 units. Nothing special, is wasn't a OCS car.
there was no place to turn a single engine sufficiently close to the Alstom plant.From Hornell what was the route from there to Fairport and east?
Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:03 am Surprised no one has yet taken a photo of an Avielia X-ing the Genessee River in Letchworth State Park on that bridge that cost Topper "a few oats" to rebuild. That ERIE line became EL's only access to Buffalo after the DL&W line through Dansville and Mt. Morris (route of the Phoebe Snow) was abandoned.How about a video?