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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The reason for the purchase of these new LRVs is to start 4 car service, so they would have 2 "middle" cars in each train. Otherwise, yes.
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Sorry, excellent point. That actually would increase the number of middle cars you could purchase and still have robust reliability. For example, if 60% of the cars were the current type with the cabs on both end and 40% were higher capacity "middle" cars, you would never run out of "end" cars. 1 out of every 3 end cars could be out of service and you'd still have enough to run the train sets you had left. (40% end type 40% middle type remaining)
And if 20% of the total fleet is out of service, there are going to be problems no matter what.