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Reply to "Plan approved today to replace Amtrak tunnel in Northeast Corridor"

Bruce's original link to The Washington Post opened and worked well for me here "down-under" in Australia. Didn't have to enter into any subscription to view the report.

Interesting stuff about the lack of maintenance on the Amtrack infrastructure. We were in the US a couple of years ago and were staying outside of Chicago, and caught the passenger service into the city every day. Couldn't help but notice the extent of "concrete cancer" in the supporting beams, and the degree of rust in the exposed steel superstructures, especially at the terminus in downtown Chicago. I took lots of photo's (much to my wife's dismay) to show the boys back home.

As a structural engineer (we specialized in Forensic Engineering - Failures and Catastrophes) I was so surprised to see the degradation in the structural supports and over-head power line supports.

Not saying we are any better here in Australia, but we don't let serious rust take that kind of a hold in any of our railway infrastructure.

Peter......Buco Australia.

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