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Re: New Bart Cars found to be too heavy
Author: synonymouse
Date: 02-22-2017 - 09:56
For those who buy into the standard gauge cars will get blown over in a strong wind BART broad gauge cover story, why not a blinking monorail instead of Bechtel's mind-boggling "supported duorail". Pretty damn hard to blow over a monorail. Why not? Simple answer: they don't have monorails in Manhattan, SPUR and Downtown Ass'n. mecca. And/or Bechtel did not just have the stones to go for the exotic(like a Musk Hypeloop)they dangled before the voters in 1962.
Was it a 60's fad that BART just had to succumb to? If so how come it was not duplicated?
80mph? Like any decent interurban BART was capable of more than that. I rode it the first week of operations in the Eastbay. You could walk up to the operator's cabin and look at the digital speedometer and see 99-100-101. I guess just to show off BART at its best. All downhill from there. As I recall hearing the Garrett motors tended to arc, worse at high speed.
So it peters down to bureaucratic bumbling and stupidity? Maybe, but I'll follow the money, right to SP ghq on Market St.
So what do my critics propose - a whole bunch more of broad gauge and a whole bunch more Amalgamated guys dozing off over the automated computerized controls? And no W.C.'s anywhere.
Was it a 60's fad that BART just had to succumb to? If so how come it was not duplicated?
80mph? Like any decent interurban BART was capable of more than that. I rode it the first week of operations in the Eastbay. You could walk up to the operator's cabin and look at the digital speedometer and see 99-100-101. I guess just to show off BART at its best. All downhill from there. As I recall hearing the Garrett motors tended to arc, worse at high speed.
So it peters down to bureaucratic bumbling and stupidity? Maybe, but I'll follow the money, right to SP ghq on Market St.
So what do my critics propose - a whole bunch more of broad gauge and a whole bunch more Amalgamated guys dozing off over the automated computerized controls? And no W.C.'s anywhere.
