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Re: Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs?? |
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Posted by Andy on Sun Feb 10 10:32:58 2008, in response to Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs??, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 10 07:38:52 2008. I remember this article. Obviously it's only words, because MNR has or will introduce new classes of MU cars - M7 and M8 - for its electrified services and continue to use MU equipment well into the 21st century. The flexibility and speed of MU equipment in high density suburban service has no peer. While the invention of push-pull locomotive-hauled consists in Chicago about 50 years ago allows non-MU services to have the same turning flexibility as MU trains, the starting and stopping of loco-hauled equipment is not as fast, effectively cutting down track capacity.The only transit agency that has turned towards loco-hauled coaches in lieu of MUs is NJ Transit. |
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