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From: jis1@mtgzz.UUCP (j.mukerji)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Signals and Safety (really Amtrak and NEC)
Message-ID: <1717@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:47:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 08:47:12 1986
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>In article <45@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
>>  I see several references in articles concerned with the rail corridor through
>>Maryland referring to "AMTRAK owned trackage".  I hate to pick nits (but then,
>>if you'll believe that, I have a few railroad trestles I'd like to sell (-:),
>>but as *I* understand it, AMTRAK only owns rolling stock.
>
>Amtrak really owns the NEC right of way -- they got it as part of the deal
>which created Conrail.  Conrail still has trackage rights, which is what
>started this whole discussion in the first place.
>-- 
>
>John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400

Yes indeed. AMTRAK *OWNS* the NEC right of way from Washington DC all the
way through New York Penn Station, across the Hell Gate Bridge, upto New
Rochelle. From New Rochelle to New Haven is owned by Metro-North Commuter
Railroad. From New Haven to Boston, I am not quite sure who owns what. I
believe that up through RI, Amtrak owns the trackage. In Massachusetts,
there may be some joint ownership deal with MBTA, but I am not sure about it.

Jishnu Mukerji, AT&T Information Systems, Middletown NJ.
The usual disclaimers....