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    RFP issued for Amfleet I replacement

    It seems like the Charger bogies are not much different from those of the ACS64. So they could also install the more powerful traction motors. By the concept leaked so far it looks like the transformer will go into the next car, perhaps part of the power electronics too (what's needed for...
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    European RR flood problems

    I will summarize the current state at Deutsche Bahn: Aktuelle Verkehrsmeldungen The following long distance lines are currently closed: Köln - Wuppertal - Hagen - Dortmund (some trains take another routing) Köln - Bonn - Koblenz (trains are routed via the right Rhine line avoiding Bonn Hbf) Köln...
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    RFP issued for Amfleet I replacement

    In UK Stadler has a FLIRT variant. The KISS is double deck. The SMILE (Giruno) is not much different: Articulated throughout but multi-system, 250 km/h, currently used in German/Swiss/Italian international trains. For a dual power version they could insert a genset section as they did in some...
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    RFP issued for Amfleet I replacement

    Hello all from Austria, I just joined. It looks like there will be a dual power version (electric and diesel-electric) for partly electrified lines and a diesel-battery hybrid version for non-electrified lines. How many trains of each type are ordered? I guess having a battery will allow...
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