Which your choice!!!!! (Contains oversized images)
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Thorinoakin
Colonel Klink
I vote Delmarva Secondary NS Branch,ye make great maps D. 
Edit: Just been not into it lately (plus vista is not agreeing to trainz)
Edit: Just been not into it lately (plus vista is not agreeing to trainz)
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Gandalf0444
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Now I have to agree we don't have a lot of it besides the NEC(where the Acela runs) but it is indeed their,where its most apparent is in the Northeast U.S. Mostly in the Tri-State area(New York,New Jersey,and Connecticut) but that doesn't mean other states in the northeast have it,just its not as abundant so to speak. I don't live on the west coast but I don't think that they even have electrified track other then trams etc. But anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. And when going south,the caternary I believe ends around Washington D.C. and Virginia...So we have more then some people are led to believe but certainly not near the amount that the countries across the pond have.Tis' very simple my NS-loving friend, a lot of Germany's railroad network is electrified, by this I mean the overhead wires above the tracks, otherwise known as catenary. What I wasn't aware of though was that the US actually had some catenary outside the Acela line.
And no Gandalf, we don't live under rocks, we live under really massive boulders from which we never come out of
WileeCoyote
Ahhh boulders eh,my bad I forgot about those huge mines that are over their in Germany
Now I have to agree we don't have a lot of it besides the NEC(where the Acela runs) but it is indeed their,where its most apparent is in the Northeast U.S. Mostly in the Tri-State area(New York,New Jersey,and Connecticut) but that doesn't mean other states in the northeast have it,just its not as abundant so to speak. I don't live on the west coast but I don't think that they even have electrified track other then trams etc. But anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. And when going south,the caternary I believe ends around Washington D.C. and Virginia...So we have more then some people are led to believe but certainly not near the amount that the countries across the pond have.
Ahhh boulders eh,my bad I forgot about those huge mines that are over their in Germany
Don't forget that Chicago had a lot back in the prime of US railroading and still does have some lines with Cat on them such as; the Metra Electric, South Shore (shares some track with METX) the Stokie Swift CTA line (this one may now be completely 3rd rail now). One can also find sections of the old CNS lines that have cat still on them (however they aren't used).
Here in Michigan we have an Ex-Cat line in Detroit going to one of the Ford Plants.
Not being completely up-to-speed on the history. I think back in the prime of railroading there was actually allot of cat scattered around the country. However times have changed and the oil companies have taken over.
peter
once upon a time milw ran into seattle and gn, long before in merged into bn, before bnsf, both milw and great norther had heavy electrics running under catenary for helper service in mountain districts, but got rid of it back in the 50s, certainly no later then the 60s. there was the sacramento northern interurban that ran all the way from sanfran up to cheaco, at the north end of the valley, but that was a victum of the early 40s ruber tire massocher. there was, however, a small portion, in the marysville yuba city area, still under wire, switched with steplecabs, well into the early 70s.
i think that just about covers it west of the mississippi, other then, as mentioned basically trolly lines, like the pacific electric down in the l.a. basin.
even those, the ones that have been re-invented as "light-rail", can be pretty much counted on the fingers of one hand.
more's the pitty too.
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i think that just about covers it west of the mississippi, other then, as mentioned basically trolly lines, like the pacific electric down in the l.a. basin.
even those, the ones that have been re-invented as "light-rail", can be pretty much counted on the fingers of one hand.
more's the pitty too.
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We had catenary on the mainlines 100 years ago!You guys actually have catenary on your side of the pond? Maybe your infrastructure ain't so far behind after all
WileeCoyote
Most of it's gone, now. Maybe we'll put up a little more later. Who knows.
I like the scenery on the Port Road line. It looks like I'm outvoted, though.
Claudep.s. They even took down the Pacific Electric catenary on Mount Lowe. Nothing left but some ruins and a hiking trail.
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strench707
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I vote Delmarva!!!!!! What's cancelled? The voting?
Davis
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