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Connecticut’s AC/DC railroad system
As I continue my summer vacation, I’ve updated a column I wrote 14 years ago… Metro-North’s train service in Connecticut is challenging because of a technological quirk of fate: ours is the only commuter railroad in the U.S. that operates on three modes of …