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Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Thu Jul 3 20:11:15 2008, in response to Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July, posted by Joe V on Thu Jul 3 18:37:20 2008. There are a lot of risk factors too: NJT has no experience with dual mode operations, there isn't any successful operation of this type of AC/diesel enterprise that has been done, the RFP on the EMU-DMU vehicle didn't exactly produce promising results, if these units turn out to be unreliable then AMTK is not going to like them very much in NYP, etc.LIRR's effort at the DM30 involved only a bit of innovation compared to the stuff that was already on the market, and as a matter of history, the judgment so far seems fairly firmly to be that LIRR would have been better off to go with P32DMs instead of DM30s. So NJT's approach makes LIRR's effort look downright conservative. It would be very interesting if they got it to work - to have the NJT DM push/pull a train using electricity from the wire at up to MAS - but there is a ton of risk in this. Much less risky would have been to simply work on completing electrification. |
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