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MisterTea
24 days ago
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Tram Trains
How does this work for say, the New York and Atlantic Railway which runs freight trains on the same tracks as the Long Island Rail Road? There are stations where a freight train passes through while a passenger train is behind it.
senkora
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The LIRR is heavy rail rather than light rail.
I don’t know the regulations but that’s probably why.
kposehn
24 days ago
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You're correct. LIRR trains are built to a much heavier standard and thus are allowed on the same tracks as freight rail.
bombcar
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Does the locomotive weigh half a million pounds and have no passengers? Then it’s heavy rail.
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