Has anyone ever seen an elevation profile of the Northeast Corridor? The whole line is fairly flat, but I'm curious what the highest points are in each state, where the steepest slopes are, etc.
Northeast Corridor elevation profile
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There have got to be old Pennsy, New Haven and even PC employee timetables around that probably have track profiles, even if Amtrak/Metro North ones are hard to get.
Just a guess, but my money on the steepest grades are into and out of the North River Tunnels under the Hudson and/or the approaches to the Hells Gate bridge.
Just a guess, but my money on the steepest grades are into and out of the North River Tunnels under the Hudson and/or the approaches to the Hells Gate bridge.
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Hudson or as they were originally known - North River Tunnel ramps it is.
Check out multimodalways.org.
They have a variety of track charts and employee timetables for Conrail and virtually all of RRs as well. Here is a link to Conrails’s track charts. Both the Eastern Regions New Jersey and Philadelphia Dividions and the Northeastern Region New England Division include tracks charts for Amtrak’s NEC. I couldn’t find anything for the Chesapeake Division for Delaware or Maryland.
https://multimodalways.org/archives/rrs/CR/CR Track Charts/CR Track Charts.html
They have a variety of track charts and employee timetables for Conrail and virtually all of RRs as well. Here is a link to Conrails’s track charts. Both the Eastern Regions New Jersey and Philadelphia Dividions and the Northeastern Region New England Division include tracks charts for Amtrak’s NEC. I couldn’t find anything for the Chesapeake Division for Delaware or Maryland.
https://multimodalways.org/archives/rrs/CR/CR Track Charts/CR Track Charts.html
