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Re: Double-deck cars for NY Metro area commuter rail |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jul 11 08:53:13 2011, in response to DOUBLE DECK CARS, posted by Avid Reader on Mon Jul 11 08:45:52 2011. Would it seem that way? Why?NJT's cars had to be custom-designed; there was nothing like them prior to their introduction. LIRR's C3s would have been useless for NJT with the high-platform-only doors and the rooflines that couldn't go through the North River Tunnels. One outstanding question is why LIRR didn't go with an already-proven single-level design as Metro-North did, that being the BBD cars based on the Pullman-Standard Comets. I have never heard of very many instances where any commuter rail agency "piggybacked" onto an order placed by a neighboring commuter agency. Railfans talk about this a lot, but it seems it's only done in rare instances, e.g. NJ Transit and AMT with the bilevels and ALP-45DPs (and they're anything but neighbors). |
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