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- From: roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Roma)
- Subject: Re: NEC
- Message-ID: <C16wGn.Fn0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <16B5CF000.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:55:21 GMT
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- M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org writes:
-
- >>1. What is the maximum speed allowed?
-
- >It varies. I don't have Employees' Timetables here at the office, but it's
- >something like: 90 mph Boston - Providence
- > 80 mph Providence - New Haven
- > 90 mph New Haven - New York
- > 110 mph New York - Washington
-
- The maximum speed permitted on the Northeast Corridor is 125 mph (about
- 200 km/hr). As Len noted, speeds vary widely depending on physical
- characteristics of the line. Also, certain equipment is restricted to
- 110 mph or lower. All of the 125 mph running is between New York and
- Washington but there is some 100+ mph running north of New Haven.
-
- > Freight service? As I mentioned earlier, there is not much freight left on
- >the Corridor. Before about 1970, there was lots.
-
- Perhaps someone local to the NEC can explain in more detail but my
- recollection is that regular freight operation on the Corridor continued
- at least up to the time of the Conrail merger and Amtrak's concurrent
- acquisition of the NEC from Penn Central in 1976. Only after the infusion
- of millions of dollars for the Northeast Corridor Improvement Program in
- the late seventies did Amtrak begin to actively discourage freight
- operations on the NEC.
- --
- Jon Roma
- Computing and Communications Services Office,
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Internet: roma@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!roma
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