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Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station |
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Posted by WillD on Sat Feb 13 01:26:04 2010, in response to Re: No Future MN New Haven Line Service to Penn Station, posted by italianstallion on Sat Feb 13 00:47:30 2010. Sure, so they can run to Greenport, Montauk, Oyster Bay, and Port Jeff (or at least the latter two depending on how the budget things shake out) when we string the high voltage wire to them.After pushing the idea of an electric locomotive I'm beginning to think a solution similar to the Dutch DD-ARs wouldn't be the way to go if we want a bilevel EMU, particularly here in the US. We'd need new cars designed around the C3 car, but more than likely without a lower level. That lower level would be occupied by the power equipment. The cars would definitely need to be in married pairs so as to provide 4 third rail shoes per side. I'm not sure if both cars would need to have their lower level occupied by equipment, but it's possible one car could retain its lower level. The other car in the pair would exist to collect current and as a motor car. Presumably it'd also have the restroom, the pantograph, brake resistors, and so on in an effort to balance the car weight between the two cars. I don't see why it'd be out of the question for this pair to have somewhere on the order of 4000hp, and thus be capable of pushing another four existing C3 cars with performance similar to the M7s. The other alternative would be to utilize an electric locomotive with a semipermanent coupled current collector car. So long as there's a cab on the outward facing end of the collector car then no operational flexibility is lost relative to the locomotive itself (unless there are sidings just 100 feet long), and it'd have the capability of spanning the same gaps as an EMU pair. |
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