by .Taurus.
Hello
I recently found this picture : http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=271650
It shows a PC GG-1 with a containertrain at Darien, CT.
Does anybody know its start and destination station ?
If this train rolls northbound (toward New Haven), did the train start in Long Island City or
did it run through New York Penn Staion and starts further south on the NEC ? (for example in Newark, Morrisville, Phily, etc ...)
I ask because of two reasons:
Frist, 1972 the catenary only reach until New Haven.
And second, i always hear/read that no (*) freight trains run through New York Penn Station because of the clearence of its tunnels.
So it would be only a short tour for the GG-1, if she pulls the train only from Long Island to New Haven ( maybe 75 miles). Why using a electric unit for only 75 miles under wire and still having engine change at both ends (Long Island City and New Haven) ?
Or did the train really run under the Hudson and East River.
A single container on a flatcar isn't higher than a passenger car (check out picture above)
(*) I only read that PRR once run a coal test train through NY Penn Station, but the train later stalled on Hell Gate Brigde. Also the Ringling Brother Circus Train run also through NY Penn Staion when riding to Long Island.
Bye
I recently found this picture : http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=271650
It shows a PC GG-1 with a containertrain at Darien, CT.
Does anybody know its start and destination station ?
If this train rolls northbound (toward New Haven), did the train start in Long Island City or
did it run through New York Penn Staion and starts further south on the NEC ? (for example in Newark, Morrisville, Phily, etc ...)
I ask because of two reasons:
Frist, 1972 the catenary only reach until New Haven.
And second, i always hear/read that no (*) freight trains run through New York Penn Station because of the clearence of its tunnels.
So it would be only a short tour for the GG-1, if she pulls the train only from Long Island to New Haven ( maybe 75 miles). Why using a electric unit for only 75 miles under wire and still having engine change at both ends (Long Island City and New Haven) ?
Or did the train really run under the Hudson and East River.
A single container on a flatcar isn't higher than a passenger car (check out picture above)
(*) I only read that PRR once run a coal test train through NY Penn Station, but the train later stalled on Hell Gate Brigde. Also the Ringling Brother Circus Train run also through NY Penn Staion when riding to Long Island.
Bye