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Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lensovet ¦  Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:43 am ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116371

No need to guess info that is publicly available. Just 6 out of the 20 accessible cars are cabs. Looks like 14 of these dinosaurs were retired to Sonoma this past Saturday . That video reminds me of another thing, which is what screech machines these cars are. Pretty low capacity too. An accessible ...

Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lensovet ¦  Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:39 pm ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116371

Caltrain on their own website guarantees only one accessible car per train.

It wouldn’t be the first time California’s spoken “social priorities” had nothing to do with the reality. But that’s just politics and it’s universal.

Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lensovet ¦  Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:30 pm ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116371

There are accessible models of that car and if the specific units on Caltrain don't have accessible features, that is on the government in California and San Francisco being cheap, not the designer. Umm, these cars were built in 1985. The ADA wasn't even passed until 5 years later. Furthermore they...

Re: NJT MLV EMU Procurement

 by lensovet ¦  Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:14 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: NJT MLV EMU Procurement ¦  Replies: 416 ¦  Views: 133282

My apologies, I misunderstood how this was going to work. You're right, the original order was for 58 powered cars and 55 non-powered cars. This was updated later to include 23 additional non-powered cars, for a total of 136 cars. However, I'm still not sure why this would mean the end of push-pull ...

That's just how the cafe car is set up on midwest trains. half business, half cafe.

Re: NJ Transit 2023 annual report

 by lensovet ¦  Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:56 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: NJ Transit 2023 annual report ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 505

FANWOODGUY wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:42 am I did not see in the report any reference to ridership by individual rail line or farebox recovery. One would think that would be an essential part of the overall report.
I've thought so too, but that has never been included in these reports.

Re: NJT MLV EMU Procurement

 by lensovet ¦  Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:55 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: NJT MLV EMU Procurement ¦  Replies: 416 ¦  Views: 133282

Are these new power cars going to be mixed in with the current trailers to form sets? Thus, eliminating all push pull operations for the bilevels? They will basically all become EMUs? Huh? These cars are not going to be powerful enough to propel a mixed consist. They are being purchased to replace ...

Re: NJT MLV EMU Procurement

 by lensovet ¦  Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:02 pm ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: NJT MLV EMU Procurement ¦  Replies: 416 ¦  Views: 133282

NJT has a picture of the new cars being built on their Facebook page.

Some guy in the comments claims that these cars are going to be too tall to fit into the North River and Bergen Tunnels. Which if true is pretty ridiculous, because if that's the case, there's literally nowhere these EMUs can go.

Interestingly SJJPA actually said that cafe car is coming back but later. Take it with a grain of salt as it's a customer service rep on Twitter, but it was news to me as well.

https://twitter.com/SanJoaquins/status/ ... 8626614309

Well, their LinkedIn profile stopped posting six months ago…

Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lensovet ¦  Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:05 pm ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116371

Good god no, these cars are absolutely awful. - zero accessibility. it's 2024. - extremely inefficient boarding and unloading with a single door per car in the middle - awkward second level that requires backtracking if there are no seats I remember the first time I rode these cars in 2007 and could...

Re: SEPTA NPT card will be "SEPTA Key"?

 by lensovet ¦  Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:44 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA NPT card will be "SEPTA Key"? ¦  Replies: 995 ¦  Views: 188460

The app has always supported multiple riders.

Key now does too, as does contactless.

Regional rail still doesn't support contactless non the key platform readers.

Re: What happened to Amtrak's website's printer friendliness for schedules?

 by lensovet ¦  Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:02 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: What happened to Amtrak's website's printer friendliness for schedules? ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 427

Mobile or desktop? I just clicked schedules in the navigation and pulled up trenton to NYP trains for next week. at the top of the list of trains where it says "Available trips" on the right side above the table there's a printer icon that seems to generate a PDF of the results. I did have...

Re: Increased NEC Service

 by lensovet ¦  Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:22 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Increased NEC Service ¦  Replies: 15 ¦  Views: 2282

At least two things going on that will affect Penn capacity, though neither are related to Empire service:

https://www.amtrak.com/pennstationaccess
https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/new ... oject.html

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by lensovet ¦  Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:10 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6712

You don't ride in planes, cars or buses backwards...why should a train be any different? Huh? I've been in plenty of buses with rear facing seats. Have you ever been on the New York City Subway? R44 and 46 cars had rear facing seats and were built in the 70s. R68 built in the 80s. Rest of the fleet...

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