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Thanks to everyone who cheered when ARC went down. ARC was an expensive, crappy design that was based onthe asumption that NJT couild change ends in 5 minutes (they can't, not even the LI is that fast). And still was only going to give a handful of extra train's capacity (supposedly 18,assuming the...

*clip a few posts of banter about Phase this, Phase that, back to back locomotives, etc* Hey, I got a way to fix Amtrak's image: * Don't crash so much. * Run on time * Stop breaking down all the time. Nobody gives a crap about how the train looks, or what phase the paint job is, if the above three a...

Knowing Amtrak's past history, they'll be leased to Kraft or something dumb like that...

Or maybe, the reality is that this doesn't matter to the 300+ million Americans that don't live in the NYC area? They'll see it as "What does it matter if some vulture capitalist has to go through the horrors of spending another 45 minutes to get to work to 'unlock shareholder value' by axing m...

Tadman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:58 pm A Ford Pinto or Leyland Pacer would be better than EWR monorail.

SEPTA's specs will also need to include transformers that are compatible with both the Reading & Pennsylvania ends of the system, although, the Pennsylvania end will be seeing them more often, particularly the Trenton, Paoli, & Newark Lines. This makes no sense, both sides are the same volt...

386 processor ? That probably means a newer processor will not even fit into the plug ? It just seems that no RR equipment should be dependent on a computer to run. Computer yes can annunciate but not shut down any motive power. The firing of the semiconductors in the inverters is entirely computer...

HHPs have one computer in them that still has a 386 processor. if you know what that is, you know its reallllly old. So i can see why stuff is hard to find. Still stocked at Digi-key. IIRC, the Airbus A3230 still uses even older processors. That's not a bug, it's a feature - most of the bad habits ...

But EU train operators should not be surprised by Bombardier caused delays in production, what had happen in North America was surely going to happen in Europe eventually. At the rate things are going, Bombardier might not exist in a few years. They sold basically all their aviation stuff, and thei...

mtuandrew wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:14 pm The Bombardier MLV isn’t my favorite; it feels top-heavy and has a pronounced sway not present in single-level cars, but the Superliner feels very similar.

CHTT1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 11:00 am Using Superliners on the NEC seems an obsession for some people. Let's face it, it's never going to happen. Too many clearance problems, lack of low level platforms. Time to move on.

Blunt nosed locomotives and EMUs run 100+ mph every day, a few inches of difference between the carbodies on the Avelia is not going to have any impact on performance vis-a-vis air resistance. Where? Outside North America, blunt nosed cab cars or MUs are not seen much anymore (Belgium is an excepti...

Perhaps a bridge is not the best idea, but a temporal separation similar to that which freights get on non-FRA trackage. The boat ramp is only open to vehicle traffic for one hour per day weekdays, four on weekends and holidays. At those times a crossing guard mans the gates. Stop thinking outside ...

I've read in boos from the 60's that he B&M was pretty awful...