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Linemen on the Northeast Corridor.

Color photograph depicting linemen working at sunrise in Connecticut.

Linemen on the Northeast Corridor.
Construction began in the 1990s to extend the electric catenary wires from New Haven, Conn., to Boston, so that high speed electrified service could extend along the Northeast Corridor in the next decade. Photo by, and courtesy of, Travis Pratt.