NEW YORK — Amtrak will resume infrastructure work at New York’s Penn Station on Jan. 3, leading to some modifications of Long Island Rail Road schedules.
Unlike previous phases of the Infrastructure Renewal Program, the work on tracks 11 and 14 will not require any service changes for Amtrak or NJ Transit trains. The $7.6 million project is scheduled to be completed by April 17, 2020.
The Long Island Rail Road changes, beginning Jan. 6 and detailed here, will see five of 144 morning-rush trains rerouted, along with six of 130 evening-rush trains. Five trains are being added immediately before or after the rush trains, and other trains are being lengthened, so that the net loss of seating capacity is less than 1%.
Updated Long Island Rail Road schedules for Jan. 6-March 8 will be available here as soon as they become available.
Good answer Mike.
Because that is the way Amtrak spec’d them out. if they had couplers then the BLE would argue they are locomotives. They did the same thing when the 1st Catcars showed up and the BLE said no ET employee was qualified to run them as trains. this way a MW qualified operator can run them as long as they operated under MW rules and less then 50mph.
Good question Alan.
Why does Plasser A 10805 have buffers instead of a standard type e coupler ?