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Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July 9th |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Thu Jul 3 23:37:43 2008, in response to Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July 9th, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jul 3 23:21:24 2008. It wouldn't be as strange a selection if much of NJT's trackage were unelectrified, or if it were electrified via third rail. But in fact neither of those is the case.It would be quite useful technology, but I'm not sure why NJT is footing the bill for this. If by whatever miracle it works out, the first non-NJT order of the units just comes with a built-in NJT subsidy. Plus, one also has to figure in to make up an actual 'dual power' trainset, assuming that it requires one locomotive, that's $13 million right there, multiply it by two if there's another, and then tack on the unit price of the multilevel coaches times however many one aims to put on a train. Doing the rough numbers, a 10-car 'DP' trainset could end up costing in the neighborhood of $46 million. For comparison, a 10-car trainset of M8s would cost about $25 million given the numbers I recall about them ($520 million order for 210 cars). |
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