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From: mcmullen@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More on turning trains and electifi
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 15:59:00 EST
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/* Written 10:47 am  Jan 24, 1986 by alcock@csse32.DEC in convexs:net.railroad */
/* ---------- "More on turning trains and electifi" ---------- */In GCT (Grand Central Terminal) there is a loop around the lower level
summer and was an ALL PARLOR car train!

>Electification: 
There are two qualifications to your comments on this topic.

   1.  The Harlem Division of NEW YORK MetroRail (I think it
       is formally called MetroNorth (?), I think, has been 
       electrified (third-rail) from North White Plains to
       Brewster.   I read in the NYT that there is not enough
       juice (it 600V dc, remember) to power newer, faster
       coaches on the extension.

   2.  Northern Pacific, now Burlington Northern abandoned
       electrification on its Great Falls-Tacoma division
       in 1974.  Farewell, Little Joes!
   
>Tunnel?!  Did I leave out any other special electifications?

     Yes, you left out the robots.  Specifically, the Black Mesa and ???
     that runs for about 110 miles in Arizona.  It is a unit train
     that delivers coal to a power plant on the shores of Lake Powell.
     BTW, this is 60 Hz 50KVA setup.
     
     A smaller robot is located in East Texas, near Pittsburg TX.
     Like the Black Mesa it delivers coal (actually lignite) to
     a power plant.  Its right-of-way crosses over I30.  It
     too, is 60 Hz 50KVA setup, supplied by GE.
     
     These are the only robots I know of directly.  I think
     there are some older less technically advanced robots
     in the various open pit copper mine throughout the Rockies.
     However, I don't know If these are robots are not.
            
                       Jim Mc Mullen
                       Convex Computer
                       Richardson, Texas
                       UUCP:  allegra@convex