Saw this on FB. From the Beijing Youth Daily page:
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https://www.facebook.com/beijingyouthda ... dpXyJziZ8l
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PHLSpecial wrote:Interesting there is only one level door from the photo.Quarter point doors. There's no end door on that car at that end since it's a cab car.
Seems like we will get half the deliveries this year.First cars next year
Edit: I'm curious if Septa will pick up more ACS-64 unless Septa plans on retiring the bombardier push-pull carsThe most recent plan I heard was:
CNJGeep wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:02 amNice cars. Any thoughts on what runs would be logical candidates to receive the cars? Doubling the number of push pull runs would be pretty dramatic upgrade. You could cover almost all the expresses with 12 push pull sets in the current schedule.PHLSpecial wrote:Interesting there is only one level door from the photo.Quarter point doors. There's no end door on that car at that end since it's a cab car.
Seems like we will get half the deliveries this year.First cars next year
Edit: I'm curious if Septa will pick up more ACS-64 unless Septa plans on retiring the bombardier push-pull carsThe most recent plan I heard was:
7 6-Car Single Levels
7 6-Car Multilevels
One spare ACS, just like with the AEM-7s. Actually, one more spare than with the AEM-7s.
RandallW wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:16 am Existing Japanese designs need to be re-engineered to fit the existing SEPTA system, which would wipe out any advantage of "reuse", starting with track gauge differences, loading gauge differences, to meet FRA crashworthiness standards, and that Japanese passenger equipment is built to exclusively use high level platforms (and likely are sized to a different height high platform than the existing SEPTA high platforms). That re-engineering would erase the cost advantage of importing the design.Actually you're right about the Importing part but SEPTA could re-engineer that design with low steps, length to be 85 foot long, and 10 foot wide (although the smallest is Silverliner 4 at 9ft 11 inches wide)