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Re: Metro-North New Haven Line on track for new cars |
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Posted by WillD on Wed Feb 22 12:05:22 2006, in response to Re: Metro-North New Haven Line on track for new cars, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Wed Feb 22 11:51:27 2006. So long as it's 20,000lbs lighter than the car would have been if it'd been based off the porker that is the M7 they've at least done SOMETHING right. Unlike foamers such as yourself I'm not interested in superficial details such as how fappable the automated announcements will be. In this instance it's all about the money. 3 million dollars for a new EMU includes a hell of a lot of engineering costs, perhaps as high as 40 to 50 percent. If MN works with SEPTA, they'll defray the cost of the engineering between each other. This drives down the cost of the EMUs, perhaps by as much as 500,000 dollars per car. NJT needs new EMUs, they just don't realize it yet. If, in the absense of Warrington, they could be brought into the project that'd drive the cost down even further. With a price in the area of 2 to 2.25 million dollars per car we might have a viable future for EMUs in the US. At those prices EMUs could be offered as an alternative to the now somewhat popular DMUs, with turnkey electrification systems for the transit line in question. |
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