There have been an increasing number of infrastructure failures
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Long stretches of that system are unchanged from when the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad first electrified it a century ago, The New York Times has found. And any wholesale modernization effort would come at tremendous cost and take more than a decade.
“It’s staggering, it’s just staggering that we’re still having antique technology controlling our rails,” said John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board whose duties included overseeing railroad investigations from 1995 to 2004. “That’s last century’s technology.”
Michael Bezilla, a historical researcher at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a book on the electrification of trains on the Northeast Corridor, said, “The question is, why hasn’t Amtrak upgraded and why isn’t it using modern technology?”
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