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Posted by WillD on Mon Mar 29 23:12:57 2010, in response to Re: CALTRAIN Prepares for Electrification, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 29 17:53:31 2010. Quite so. Stick with the bilevel push-pulls and something like the ALP46ADo you want to explain to the commuters why their commute is taking longer? Yes, lets trade 2.5mph/s and a 125mph top speed for ALP46s which maybe get 1mph/s and a top speed somewhere between 79 and 100mph depending how the Gallery Cars and Bilevels are set up. And instead of using the Caltrain route for the CAHSR line we can go and dig our own ROW somewhere else on the penninsula. Way to go, in your foamer effort to hold onto useless rolling stock you cost the state billions of dollars. Pennywise and poundfoolish doesn't even begin to describe this stupidity. There's enough UP freight activity along that line to make FRA exclusion a total pain. Sure, fewer than 10 freight trains per week. Lets derail an entire multibillion dollar project because its too hard to change a few rules to avoid less than 2 trains per day. I like this illustration, even though the electric motor is an AEM-7 and the cars aren't exactly gallery cars but appear to be based somewhat on the Pacific Surfliner bilevels Eh, he did much better stuff when he graduated from colored pencils to photoshoppe and better subject matter: 
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