NYCTrainFan95 Posted November 10, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 10, 2009 I read something somewhere that M8 cars will have both top and bottom 3rd rail capability. This all but implies that the MTA is trying to get MNCR trains into NYP. Your thoughts on the cars, or MNCR in NYP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INDman Posted November 10, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 10, 2009 This all but implies that the MTA is trying to get MNCR trains into NYP. No, they tried something like it once and it did not work so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N-Trizzy2609 Posted November 10, 2009 Share #3 Posted November 10, 2009 They are looking for the possiblity of sending some train to NYP but it will have a retractable shoe, no two third rails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metsfan Posted November 10, 2009 Share #4 Posted November 10, 2009 Retractable bottom contact shoe + pantograph. You could do it, as long as you didn't have to switch it on the fly. Run trains from NYP up the new haven line, terminate where the 3rd rail ends, park the pantograph, deploy the shoes, run to GCT would work. Anything more and i think you're asking too much, last thing i wanna see is some tap-dancing train doing 90 and stuff flapping out all over, like a cosmo but its pantograph flying up to the non existent wire, or the 3rd rail shoe opening as it enters NYP tearing up the top contact rail. Just do it at end points. Make it so you only have one system deployed at a time or the train doesn't move. Dual shoe types wouldn't work because of the way the shoes mount on the trucks. - A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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