Dealing with a damaged pantograph

[on30gn15]

Hey Y'all; Don't know how Trainz could work in these 2 guys and their saw dealing with a damaged pantograph, but it is an interesting thing to note:

New Haven, Connecticut, USA, October 29, 2023 "Portioning the Pantograph" On the afternoon of October 29th, 2023 Amtrak ACS-64 605 suffered an issue with its pantograph between New Haven Union & State Street stations (CP 273) on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line while on a non-revenue positioning move towards the New Haven Yard Loop. This resulted in downed catenary wire and single-tracking through the area. Metro-North crews can be seen cutting the damaged pantograph from 605 before the disabled consist is moved out of the affected area.

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/844161/

 

[JCitron]

That must've created quite the spark when that got knotted up. The line is 25KV AC today. In the olden days, it was 11KV 25 Hz or something like that.

 

[on30gn15]

Although not exactly the same thing, photo very much brings to mind a book by Noel T. Holley, The Milwaukee Electrics, Hundman Publishing, 1999. Somewhere in it, here at 02:26am I'm too lazy to get up cross the room, move the defunct printer, and get it from bottom shelf, it recounts an interview with a catenary maintainer who mentioned that after a wreck the catenary crew could repair the wires and be back in bed before the wrecker crew even got to the site. Also tells about the maintenance truck created by a supervisor of surname Wiley, which made that kind of timing possible.