by dowlingm
The Montreal ALP45s might have a use in Boston especially if Bombardier could lease them to MBTA as complete trainsets paired with surplus Exo MLVs - NJT have done the work on qualifying the power with ACSES and the diesel could solve the issue of presently unwired sidings/platforms. Bombardier would presumably like to have another ALP45 customer as it loses Exo, if only while MBTA decides on a full-rollout power provider.
Mind you, Siemens have launched a Vectron pantograph dual mode and I doubt they would sit still while Bombardier cosied up to MBTA. But the 45 has a service history on NA rails (good and bad) and a DM Charger doesn’t.
I can’t see the same being as true for the MR90s. Wouldn’t figuring out the wiring for PTC alone be horrifically expensive for a fleet of 58 1994 era vehicles? Maybe less so if they were formed into fixed 8 car trainsets with only the end cabs given ACSES.
Mind you, Siemens have launched a Vectron pantograph dual mode and I doubt they would sit still while Bombardier cosied up to MBTA. But the 45 has a service history on NA rails (good and bad) and a DM Charger doesn’t.
I can’t see the same being as true for the MR90s. Wouldn’t figuring out the wiring for PTC alone be horrifically expensive for a fleet of 58 1994 era vehicles? Maybe less so if they were formed into fixed 8 car trainsets with only the end cabs given ACSES.