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Re: DMU's for LIRR are funded |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Apr 1 16:02:26 2012, in response to Re: DMU's for LIRR are funded, posted by Dutchrailnut on Sun Apr 1 10:56:44 2012. Seperation can only happen wth freight during night hours.Please read the Caltrain waiver. if any passenger train on that line will be a FRA standard train than all will have to comply with FRA standards. No, they don't. The waiver explicitly allows non-time separated shared freight/passenger operation on the southern 5 miles between Tamien and Sunnyvale. Furthermore it allows shared operation with compatible and non-compatible passenger rolling stock along the entire length of the line. By comparison Denton's waiver is simplicity unto itself. European trains will probably not be heavy enough to shunt rail on Amercan signalling including ACSES as required by 2015. The M1s were lighter than most post-Euro III DMUs so that statement, while it may have been valid for the Flexliner, is fairly ridiculous for anything that'd be ordered today. As for Stadler cars , I don't believe their high platform capble as floor height is at European platform height or about a foot lower than LIRR's So don't order Stadlers, order Bombardier RegioSwingers. They have a 48 inch floor height, so once the stairs and long doors are removed they'd provide absolutely level high platform boarding. At 128 tons per 170 foot long pair they're almost identical to the M7s in terms of weight, but still significantly lighter than the proposed DMU variants of the MTA's ubiquitous EMU. |
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