by nh chris
Let me see if I have this right. So far, I think we can agree that:
1. VRE cars have freed up Shoreline East coaches that COULD be used to supplement service into GCT on the New Haven line, but MN/CTDOT do not have any available engines to pull them;
2. Only current diesel that is suitable/sized right for service into GCT is the GE Genesis;
3. GE will not make "custom" Genesis units unless the order is for more than 15, which CTDOT does not need;
4. The REAL solution, M-8's (in whatever configuration) are years and years away;
5. MN/CTDOT will not touch the FL-9ACs it has on the property because they were too unreliable after their rebuilds, and now have been out of service too long; and
6. CTDOT has ~$40 million to spend on engines/MUs.
Is there really no way to use the FL-9ACs, even if they have (another) makeover to solve the problems created by the last remanufacturing? Couldn't they be used as a stop-gap solution, given the bind that CTDOT is in?
1. VRE cars have freed up Shoreline East coaches that COULD be used to supplement service into GCT on the New Haven line, but MN/CTDOT do not have any available engines to pull them;
2. Only current diesel that is suitable/sized right for service into GCT is the GE Genesis;
3. GE will not make "custom" Genesis units unless the order is for more than 15, which CTDOT does not need;
4. The REAL solution, M-8's (in whatever configuration) are years and years away;
5. MN/CTDOT will not touch the FL-9ACs it has on the property because they were too unreliable after their rebuilds, and now have been out of service too long; and
6. CTDOT has ~$40 million to spend on engines/MUs.
Is there really no way to use the FL-9ACs, even if they have (another) makeover to solve the problems created by the last remanufacturing? Couldn't they be used as a stop-gap solution, given the bind that CTDOT is in?