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Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sun Jun 9 07:42:37 2019, in response to Re: Amtrak orders 75 new Siemens Charger locomotives for LD trains, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 8 20:45:31 2019. Unfortunately the maintenance thing is very true and I agree.The ALP45DP is only a couple of inches taller than the SW1001 and was developed over 10 years ago, so I wouldn’t necessarily say that. By the time that technology develops the LIRR can buy and refurbish single level coaches that will be on the market like the Mafersas, Comets, MARC coaches, etc and use that to run Poughkeepsie level service from all of its diesel territory to either of its Manhattan terminals until electrification spreads out. They could probably even tack on to Amtrak’s Viaggio order and save a little bit of money that way. Excuse the foam, but I just think it’s really dumb how the LIRR ordered and paid for all of those dual mode locomotives and barely even have a need for them with its current service offerings. |
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