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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 Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 17:27:34 2008, in response to Re: NJT Board considering large capital expenditure on new rolling stock, including DMs & EMUs, July, posted by Fred G on Sat Jul 5 16:31:00 2008. BBD has a bad habit of taking on projects that don't work out. Case in point: Acela Express. If they bit off more than they could chew there, they're setting themselves up big-time.You don't need to be an expert to find out some of the absolutes that exist in physics. I outlined a few. If NJT's chasing idealism instead of expertise, they are setting up a huge debacle. Other countries are not even considering stuff like this; they're going right to electrification. (SNCF has been playing around with the interim B 82500 class EMU/DMU, which can apparently use two different voltages of electrification plus run on diesel power; these aren't single-unit locomotives, though, and have a lot of redundancy, and can't hit NJT's goal of 100 mph in diesel mode. SNCF still has plans to go all-electric on all lines.) |
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