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March 2015 Issue Preview
Can I get Jim’s job?
Without the magazine editing part?!
Varied topics of interest.
As a retired Metra employee, I’m very much looking forward to this issue. And that NYMTA’s East Side Access receives coverage as well gives attention to commuter rail a geographic balance. And what makes EAS, a transportation infrastructure project of epic proportions, so unique is it’s being built utterly out of sight and out of mind of all those New Yorkers who live and work obove the route.
The Metra article will undoubtedly include coverage of the Englewood Flyover. The natural follow-on is the as yet unfunded 75th Street Corridor set of projects. If the March issue does not cover that in any detail, I hope Trains will in a subsequent issue.
In the same vein, the eastern end of EAS is the junction in Long Island City with the historic route to/from Penn Station. It’s reconfiguration, also under construction, includes at least one flyover and is designed to reduce or entirely eliminate the conflicts between Amtrak NY-BOS trains and LIRR that have historically existed (Harold Interlocking). If the March look at EAS does not include coverage of this part of EAS, along with track diagrams of the present and future configurations, I hope Trains does this in a future issue.
I for one havent seen decay at Metra since they retired the E-8s from the BN, Maybe your talkin about the track or bridges but the rolling stock and the engines have been kept pristine since early 1990’s as I’ve seen it.
Great Ride in Switzerland… Thank You for taking-All-of-Us along… Grande-VideoIndeed…
Excellent monthly