by 93r8g7
rcthompson04 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:45 amWrong again! SEPTA knows very well how to operate push-pulls. The only problem is more of the crew needs to be trained on them, which they are working on. EMU's are a very solid vehicle, particularly SEPTA's. Some transit agencies would kill for them rather than be stuck with push pulls.Head-end View wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:41 pm MattW, locomotives work better on lines with some distance between stations. Electric MU's work a lot better on a railroad like SEPTA where the stations are very closely spaced on some lines and you need faster acceleration and deceleration to maintain the schedule.SEPTA showed with its "all day push-pull" experiment that it does not know how to run push-pull equipment on non-express runs. I think that the ACS-64s with 3 Bomber coaches and a control car could be used off peak, but they need to be used in specific areas: Wilmington/Newark line, Trenton line, and Paoli-Thorndale, Doylestown, Norristown, West Trenton.
Use them on the earlier or later express runs and pair them with an off-peak run back to the yard. I would keep them off the Reading side except for express runs and deadheading to the yards.
Secondly, it's a completely falsity that SEPTA stations are closely spaced. On the Chestnut Hill East, Bala, and Fox Chase Lines, perhaps a few others, sure they are, just like every railroad, but for the most part, they are far enough apart for excellent operation with Push Pulls. We had a push pull set on the Norristown Line only 3 weeks ago, ran perfectly fine. Not to mention a few stations just need to go. Angora and Daylesford being a few such examples. This thread is about SEPTA purchasing stepped-up multilevel EMU's anyway, which are not push pulls. Not surprisingly, most keyboard warriors are completely useless trolls. Blame these people for the reason the system can't expand - because half, if not more, of the people are complete useless fools.