Sunday, October 22, 2023

The Cost of Ripping Up Those Rails

Amtrak train service was suspended Sunday between Albany and New York City because of a mudslide in Westchester County.

Back in the day, the New York Central would have rerouted those intercity passenger trains down the Harlem Line's Upper Harlem Division. But the Penn Central abandoned the line north of Dover Plains (Metro North later reopened it to Wassaic) and ripped up the tracks.
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1 comment:

  1. Eck!10/23/2023 2:02 PM

    Classic example of short sighted goal of profit.

    The cause and the problem are the same. Trucking was
    flexible and early on cheap. Now its not as flexible
    and due to cost of fuel and trucks not cheap either.
    Rail has managed to maintain its cost and on a cost
    per ton scale remain inexpensive and uses less fuel
    to move it..

    Another sad story in mass transit.
    To that I offer Guthrie's City of New Orleans


    Eck!

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