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Re: Metrolink Question-DMU's would have cost more to operate.
Author: ancient of days
Date: 07-02-2018 - 16:10
Colorado Railcar no longer exists. They went bust in 2008, and their assets were acquired Value Recovery Group, which set up US Railcar to hold them.
Actual vehicles were all built under the Colorado Railcar operation. US Railcar hasn't built anything. Chez Wikipedia (Colorado Railcar article):
Other than the WES cars, are any of the noted DMUs still in operation? Wikipedia isn't unequivocal about it, but reading between the lines it appears that none of the DMUs at Tri-Rail lasted very long - all service these days uses the near-standard (for the US new-start commuter services since the 1980s) Bombardier and Rotem cars in push-pull trains with diesel locomotives.
Actual vehicles were all built under the Colorado Railcar operation. US Railcar hasn't built anything. Chez Wikipedia (Colorado Railcar article):
Quote:Wikipedia
Florida Tri-Rail received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to test the DMU vehicles. Contracted in 2003 and completed in 2005, a bi-level DMU demonstrator and matching bi-level coach entered regular revenue service with Tri-Rail in October 2006. In mid-2007, Tri-Rail acquired three more bi-level DMUs and an additional bi-level non-powered coach. Now in daily revenue service, the two DMU consists have a passenger capability of roughly 560 passengers.
In 2008, Colorado Railcar also delivered three DMUs (and one unpowered coach) to the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon for use on the WES Commuter Rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville, Oregon; an additional bi-level DMU to the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority; and one bi-level DMU to the Alaska Railroad to be used for a new passenger rail service serving the Chugach National Forest. Upon delivery of the DMUs to SFRTA and AKRR, Colorado Railcar ceased operations and now is US Railcar.
Other than the WES cars, are any of the noted DMUs still in operation? Wikipedia isn't unequivocal about it, but reading between the lines it appears that none of the DMUs at Tri-Rail lasted very long - all service these days uses the near-standard (for the US new-start commuter services since the 1980s) Bombardier and Rotem cars in push-pull trains with diesel locomotives.
