RE: (erielack) Del Water Gap view

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_comcast.net>]

> Looking at all of these pictures of The Gap make me wonder if DL&W ever
> thought about a dome coach for the Phoebe Snow.  The impressive
> mountains around the Water Gap, the cut-off views and the Pocono
> Mountians with the ability to look back at the Water Gap would have made a
> Dome a great addition.  Then there were the views on the Nicholon Cut-off,
> and the areas around Dansville.

I think the issue was the catenary between Hoboken and Dover.  I know that
it's been proven that domes can run under the catenary safely in the 1980s,
but perhaps the concern about catenary in those years precluded the use of a
dome?

	- Paul



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