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Wild guess, maybe because 9637 has a plated over end door so no evac possibility in tunnels without catwalks?

At MV/Pelham, a train that can't change over WILL NOT clog the harlem or the NEC after New Rochelle. It will just coast a while and stop and wait for a rescue train to remove passengers.

Unfortunately easier said than done, it’s not cheap and it requires a lot of time to install on both the tracks and equipment. I’m not going to comment much on that 60 minute segment however some things were blown out of proportion quite a bit. I can’t help but wonder what the csx engr who lost his...

Is there any standard in respect to how strong the mounting of the window to the car body is? If I recall correctly, in the 2013 Metro North crash at Spuyten Duyvil, at least two of the four fatalities was found to have been ejected out of the windows of the Shoreliner coaches. How would a larger w...

Have we actually seen what the Avelia power cars will look like? The TALGO power-cars/cab cars used in Spain are also set up for only one person in the cab. That's the design TALGO wanted to built on the Washington state trains. However it was Amtrak or the FRA or perhaps both that required the ugl...

CDOT will get more used coaches for SL fleet. They have a habit of geting used old junk for their low mileage, low duty cycle branches and "not NY" service. MN/MTA probably wouldn't accept maintenance on used coaches, or allow them into GCT (assuming enough DMs) anyways since their MTBFs w...

Why has LA Metro never bought off the shelf LRVs like Siemens SD/U2/S200/Boeings or PCC-like cars? Does LA Metro just have the $ for customized vehicles and wants to burn it (LACMTA owns the blueprint IP) or is it a unique loading gauge that no other LR system in the USA uses and requires custom LRV...

I'm just trying to think of how certain subway routes have automated announcements... GPS obviously isn't available when deep underground, so there must be some other way for "This is a Bronx-bound... six... local... train" to be accurately followed by "The next stop is ... Grand Cen...

ApproachMedium wrote:the amfleet bodies dont have the vertical space i think to make good use of that style planning. They could call it, a slumberliner??? ViewSlumber?

Sounds like Amtrak needs to form some subsidiaries and let those subsidiaries do whatever they want to be creative in finding was to add and improve service and financing sources, free from whatever shackles are holding Amtrak back. The explanations above are helpful in that I see why Amtrak hasn't...

Last week I took a NHL maxibomb from GCT. There was no HEP at the GCT platform. When the train departed there was HEP for 30 seconds, and then it went out, and no power all the way through the Park Ave tunnel. At 125 the train at the platform doors closed for 25 minutes due to "mechanical diffi...

Why do M7 toilets flush themselves every minute or 2 if the door is locked (bathroom door locked light)? Is this a new behavior or has it always been that way?

After the changover to 60hz power on MN, the M-2's lost their MG sets to inverters for power to the HVAC,lights,battery charger,and other aux systems,killing off any chance to run into NYPenn or anywhere on the former PRR/RDG catenary You could be smelling gear oil fumes from the traction motor gea...

Looks like CT paid for a design to be drawn up already http://www.railplan.com/kawasaki-m8-commuter-cafe.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I carry an old smartphone phone. It doesn't run any modern apps or a modern browser. 75% I use eticket for adv purchase discount weeks in advance, 25% the kiosk when I know I will be taking the train only 2 hours or less from departure, sometimes as low as 10 minutes from departure, I use the QuickT...