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- From: atrw0176@cellar.org (Atrw93)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Locomotive pilots
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:53:28 GMT
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- wadams@spitz.ECE.CMU.EDU (William Adams) writes:
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- >
- > Also: I have seen one particular pilot on a Conrail engine in Pittsburgh, PA
- > with the lower outside corners cut off and the markings "3rd rail cutout"
- > chalked on. Is there 3rd rail track on freight-shared tracks around here?
- >
- > Bill
-
- These units are eqquipped for and authorized to operate in third rail
- territory on Metro-North out of NYC, ex-NYC third rail territory.
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- They would also clear third rail on Long Island RR, although I have
- never heard of one being out there. The LIRR third rail extends
- west through Penn Station to the portal of the Hudson River tunnels
- at the Hackensack Meadows. AMTK uses third rail power to work on
- de-energized 12KV overhead catenary.
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