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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Nov 21 19:28:13 2010, in response to Re: American Railcar gone, posted by Jersey Mike on Sun Nov 21 18:17:30 2010. Will wants to use light rail vehicles for heavy/commuter rail systems.It's bit disingenuous to call the vehicles that Will advocates for us to use to be "light rail" in this context given that they're mainline vehicles overseas. You may view them as a "light rail", but they're still considerably different from the Stadtbahnwagen stock or Citadis units roaming around the streets of Western Europe. On SEPTA Market East, Suburban and 30th St all have 10+ car high level platforms, but stations like Highland Ave only serves a single door. From your writings this is obviously where we diverge. While you're focused on the classic American commuter rail setup, I'm far more interested in running what amounts to be a S-Bahn. In other words, a station like Highland would have a full blown platform with level access and 4 tph offpeak. FWIW, for the Europeans, if you're serving stops where you have minimal station infrastructure, you'd probably use the smaller one-car units, not a large multiple unit regardless of power source. In an urban context, one wouldn't have pathetically small station like that... Using DMUs w/o passthrough limits train length to the smallest platform size. OTOH, it requires you to have a conductor on board to sit there and babysit the one door that opens up. I'd like to move away from multiple person train operation. Besides, as a former Hempstead Branch rider, dwell times suck when you're waiting for two or three people to make their way into that forth car that can reach platform, nor is it easy for some people to open up the heavy storm doors used between cars. |
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