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- From: romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
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- Subject: Re: NEC
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 06:05:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.214104.19789@news.columbia.edu> brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan) writes:
- >In article <3213@tymix.Tymnet.COM> romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael
- >Stimac) writes:
- >>>routing off all the commuter lines into the station, but some, at least the
- >>>Paoli Local don't (obviously) tread on the corridor.
-
- >>This cannot pass unchallenged!
-
- >The point, and worth making I think, is that 30th St upper level to
- >Main Line does not share any track with Northeast Corridor (30th St
- >lower to New York), and can be operated separately. Sure, in one
- >sense the Zoo triangle is on the corridor-- for train watching as an
- >example, and if one were to diagram the trackage I'd like to see all
- >of Zoo shown-- but for operations, part of it isn't.
-
-
- Zoo Junction *is* part of the corridor! What do you think, that
- they have a different set of tower operators for some tracks than
- others, and that they are on different payrolls, and that they
- buy the electricity for the different wires from a different
- electric company!
-
- Zoo is all one plant; and the switches that the Paoli local goes
- over are interlocked with the switches that the Metroliners go over.
- So, for operations, they cannot be "operated separately".
-
- If you're trying to say that there is no piece of rail N feet
- long over which both the Metroliners and the Paoli local pass,
- that may well be so. That is very different from trying to say
- that a few of the tracks in Zoo are part of the corridor and
- a few of them are not.
-
- Next you'll tell me that 0 track and 5 track, et al, are not
- part of the corridor either! Get real!
-
- Michael Stimac
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