could run with dual-mode hybrid locos for electric in NSRL tunnel.
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through running with CR to subway will have a complicated transfer of locomotive power at the jct location.
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That's why CR should convert to EMU before anything else
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conversion to EMU cost so much more than just purchasing dual-mode locos?
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But improve travel time with better acceleration and drastically reduce track wear
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while a purchase of new locos is ~1.2bn and that would be it?
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Cost of EMUs should be considered as the increment between their cost and those of new locos AND coaches combined.
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EMU is always going to be expensive-er because of the catenary problem?
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Yeah. EMUs are definitely a premium *relative to where we are now* but they are a *far* superior product to dual-modes.
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To have thru running, we need EMUs, which also means we need systemwide electrification. OTOH another line through downtown, we do not.
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are we eventually going to electrify the entire CR or not
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