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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Aug 31 03:02:16 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by ElectricTraction on Sun Aug 30 20:50:09 2015. I would go loco-hauled, with ALPs and Comet-style cars but if they insisted on MU cars, I'd probably go with a new design, or take the Stupidliner design, have a company that's not Hyundai Rotem build them and put bathrooms in them, thereby fixing their problems.Given that they're looking at 15 minute headways for the airport branch with some degree of single tracking to cut capital costs, going with an electric locomotive and cab car arrangement is probably the least ideal solution possible. It screams multiple unit, but given the lack of them on the American marketplace, it only leaves the Silverliner Vs which aren't *terrible* units or the M8s which aren't terrible, but again, were made by a firm partnering in the bid process. They'd probably would have been better off just paying Stadler to import FLIRTs, but allegedly, UP was demanding FRA grade stuff on separate tracks for their use of their ROW. Mind you, I've personally been on a FLIRT in Germany, and they're, IMHO, the best multiple units in the world, and I don't think that there's any regional train in the United States capable of 0 to 62 (100 km/h) in 30 seconds. This is a first generation unit:  This is the latest model upgraded for the latest UIC crash regulations: 
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