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Posted by WillD on Wed Feb 22 11:11:46 2006, in response to Metro-North New Haven Line on track for new cars, posted by Dutchrailnut on Wed Feb 22 08:42:04 2006. Goddamn, if their 'wider' seats in the middle of the car end up going from 3+2 to 2+2 (which, unless they want a non-W/C accessible aisle it pretty much has to) then it'll be one step closer to the Silverliner V. Why can't somebody just get MN and SEPTA into the same room to realize that they're speccing the same friggin railcar? 600vdc third rail equipment doesn't cost THAT much, and they'd save a lot on the engineering and development if they split those costs between each other.If it weren't for the fact that the 'specification' on the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council's page was almost totally devoid of technical information I'm willing to bet it'd look extremely similar to SEPTA's Silverliner V specifications. SEPTA's proposed 104 new EMUs come in at a price of just about the same, so if the two agencies actually used their heads, worked together, and merely adapted the same basic railcar to fit their needs (third rail shoes for MN, traps for SEPTA), they probably could save themselves a considerable amount of money. |
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