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Re: A new topic for discussion, electrification to Port Jeff and Patchague |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Jun 16 12:16:10 2019, in response to Re: A new topic for discussion, electrification to Port Jeff and Patchague, posted by AlM on Sun Jun 16 11:14:41 2019. But the rail cars become much more expensive if they need to be able to handle both catenary and third rail. See MNRR.Are they? The current orders placed by ConnDOT and MNRR are deceptive because they're exceedingly small and thus place all the costs of acquisition on a few vehicles. More instructive are the 380 M8 cars in the initial base and option orders were purchased in 2006 for $760 million. That works out to $1.8 million per car, or $2.35 million in 2019 dollars. The LIRR's order for 676 M9s was a $1.8 billion order, which works out to $2.66 million per car. That's decidedly less than being twice as expensive. |
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