I'm not sure I see the need for MUs vs Powered Ends for NEC (at least anything above regional).https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/943229191239200770 …
reduced track maintenance costs + better travel times thru better acceleration/deceleration
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Eh, the marginal improvement from axle weight w/r/t maintenance is a tough sell. Can't argue on the distributed power plant though.
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it literally stacks every year, how is it a hard sell
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Because you’re not really reducing the weight on rails by a significant margin, unless you’re planning on running more trainsets, in which, yeah it becomes a factor.
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More trainsets, yes. And yes, the weight wouldn't change much without a change in our ill-conceived crash safety regulations, but this is more about the number of powered axles that are gripping the track
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Eh, I wouldn’t discount some of the crash regs, but we’ve disagreed on that before. Something like the KiHa 25s are about 40t, so pretty equivalent to an amfleet car. I don’t think there is an unpowered equivalent on JR...
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