| track location — will it be sunken, at grade level, or elevated? — are among the issues
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| track location — will it be sunken, at grade level, or elevated? — are among the issues
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“Even the Amtrak Acela in the Northeast Corridor has no grade crossings. A train going 150mph would turn a school bus into a pancake if there were ever an accident. If they don’t have money for overpasses and underpasses at every crossing, the cost estimates are junk.”
You’re wrong on this one, Nick.
Between New Haven and Westerly (Rhode Island) there remain several grade crossings on Amtrak’s “Shore Line”, on which the Acela and other passenger trains run.
The areas in which the crossings exist, however, are not “high-speed” areas — we’re talking track speeds of, say, 75mph, tops. But the crossings ARE there.
In fact, on some of these crossings, the Amtrak operating instructions specify that the train’s horn is NOT to be used, except in an emergency. These crossings are equipped with special technologies that can detect the presence of obstructions and will set the train’s cab signals to a restrictive indication if the crossings are fouled.
But again, the crossings DO exist.
You are correct that there are no grade crossings on the Corridor between New York and Washington. They’ve all been removed.
That portion of the line between New York and New Haven had the crossings eliminated when it was constructed 1890-1915.
What kind of nonsense is this? You mean they don't know? No country builds high speed trains with grade crossings. Even the Amtrak Acela in the Northeast Corridor has no grade crossings. A train going 150mph would turn a school bus into a pancake if there were ever an accident. If they don't have money for overpasses and underpasses at every crossing, the cost estimates are junk.