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Posted by WillD on Wed Aug 6 17:23:28 2008, in response to Re: R179 Specs, posted by Hank Eisenstein on Wed Aug 6 17:06:59 2008. The cars we tested were on their way to Israel, but they were originally designed and built by ABB for the Danish National Railways as a highly flexible MU platform to accomodate electric and diesel propulsion. They also operate with RENFE in Spain, SJ in Sweden, and Israel's national railways. At speed coupling and uncoupling is far from their only feature, and I'm not even sure if anyone utilizes it. Every Flexliner train I rode stopped at a station to couple and uncouple sets. However, it does offer the capability to operate combined IC3 and IC2 DMUs with IR4 EMUs. That capability potentially provides the ability to achieve the same results as a dual mode locomotive with none of the technical difficulty or risk. It also is one of the few MUs in Europe to offer a walk-through design which is flexible in train length. |
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