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Oddly enough IF the NJT Bilevel Power Cars work out they could also fit since they have traps and high floor, and it would be easy to swap out AC control modules for a 1500VDC control module.

ODDLy enough the M9s fits perfectly for this since you would just need the DC components, so it would be a M7 with the M9 pantograph

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It’s happening, official video of the Multilevel III

This is interesting. If it is a single self propelled vehicle, then it will likely be a cross between an ALP46 and an MLV car. One could likely take the scaled down guts of an ALP46 (transformer, control hardware and such) and stuff them in the lower level of an MLV car, plus of course change of th...

I Happen to come across some information regarding this. In the information i read it mentioned a option for 250 cars "INTENDED" for SEPTA. This was news to me because they ofcourse have not mentioned anything. So i am very curious to see how this will play out. A part of me thinks SEPTA ...

I am surprised but I suspect not nearly as astonished as someone such as yourself who saw Amtrak takeover service from his own road. Hope the trip is rewarding. I would note additionally that Brightline/Virgin is now claiming they will build their own Rights of Way some of their future proposed ser...

I feel like if they had say an app with NFC which both iOS and Android support via Apple Pay and Android Pay/Samsung Pay it wouldn't be bad as most modern phones support NFC (and I mean 4 year old iPhone SEs do and the S7 does), which means it would be great to say make a virtual Key card that you c...

In related news: https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nictd-to-begin-search-for-rail-car-manufacturer/article_ea80d3ea-dd54-5d6e-840e-d9ccef88b337.amp.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; After the Nippon Sharyo fiasco at Amtrak, not only did they close the Rochelle plan...

The 900+ options in the contract will never be exercised. These are supposed to be bi-level EMUs which do not currently exist (compliant to US requirements) and could end up as white elephants as there are no other natural buyers of EMU thingies in the US. Also there is no way NJT needs 900 of thes...

Yea thats a cool idea, but in the end its a dining car with crappy seats with no upper back support, no recline, no legroom, AC thats always freezing cold year round, and less than half the seats. If you toted the car along as an additional car provided to those in biz class, maybe. But using it to...

I mean I am shocked because the Superliner 2 is literally an old design, they could unironically have Bomb build Superliner 3s from the same stuff as Superliner 2s, put in new guts, modern ACs and use their off the shelf truck designs and boom, a 110mph superliner is ready to go.

So I was reading the document and I saw Reissue revised Bi-Level PRIIA Spec as a thing. Now This is interesting because I SUSPECT but can't prove that the superliner style bilevel cars are still popular enough outside of the NEC that there is a demand for a next gen Superliner style car so in theory...

The article is old and while it contains some true facts it is quite weak in the arguments it makes. Recently the Gateway Development Corporation released a set of "mythbusters" that reveal that most of the typical complaints to be unreasonable. You can read those here http://www.gatewayp...

If Vermont wanted to they could build their knowledge corridor (Or was that CT) train by simply running dual header trains to avoid the need for a cab car easily. This is enough for a basic starter commuter service

I feel like I would want once an hour you could do an all coach or just stick one Biz car all coach bilevel Super Regional to deal with demand, like how the TGV Duplex/E4 exists