Metra Electric Rider
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I actually looked at photos to see the wire... Plus Amtrak won't need that.
Chicago Metra Electric District (MED) speed increases?
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I need some trivial topic to obsess over, otherwise what else can I do while we wait!Gantries over the track means nothing, since it is not uncommon for non-electrified track that shares ROW with electrified track often has gantries across them for civil engineering convenience.. You need to carefully follow the track and see how it is connected by tracks. Wires are not visible and are useless for this analysis.
But in some sense this discussion is also a silly waste of time since all that we will determine at the end of it is whether one lousy crossover needs to be built or not.
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I was not commenting about your posts. I was commenting about the dialogue @Metra Electric Rider and I were having.I need some trivial topic to obsess over, otherwise what else can I do while we wait!
I think the big picture issues of running Amtrak Eastern service on NICTD was hashed out in great detail a while back in the context of the under construction new NICTD South Line being used for the Cardinal etc. You can look for that using the search function.
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The discussion I alluded to in the previous post can be found around this post of mine a little while back in that thread:I need some trivial topic to obsess over, otherwise what else can I do while we wait!
https://www.amtraktrains.com/thread...-in-the-chicago-area.67127/page-6#post-962065
. This is a great thread to dig into, thanks.
