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Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question
Author: Commenter
Date: 02-18-2018 - 00:14

It is a little more complicated than that. From the short spec sheet:

"Meets FRA Alternate Compliance requirements for operating in mixed traffic, which results in a very high level of passive safety by using crash energy management technology."

Stadler KISS Spec Sheet (pdf)

The FRA has been finally working toward a formal standard to replace buffing strength with passenger safety as a figure of merit.

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  Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Joe Cullum 02-17-2018 - 17:37
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Jeff 02-17-2018 - 20:10
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Sumotuwe 02-17-2018 - 21:13
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Al 02-17-2018 - 21:19
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Commenter 02-17-2018 - 21:33
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question usmc1401 02-17-2018 - 22:02
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Commenter 02-18-2018 - 00:14
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Max Wyss 02-18-2018 - 04:28
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question John 02-18-2018 - 14:08
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Commenter 02-18-2018 - 18:18
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Clem 02-18-2018 - 22:22
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Coast Crawler 02-18-2018 - 15:04
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question david vartanoff 02-18-2018 - 17:14
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Tom McCann 02-19-2018 - 21:50
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Ron 02-19-2018 - 22:04
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question david vartanoff 02-20-2018 - 10:00
  Re: Pacific Surfliner on the Peninsula and Caltrain Calmod question Just Sayin 02-20-2018 - 10:38


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