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Originally Posted by Madman
In the Hearld article it mentions they will be looking at other vendors other than Seimens for the new cars.
What are the options for LRVs that they will be looking at?
If they did go with another vendor, I'm guessing those new cars could only be used with cars of the same brand - or are they inter-operable?
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Manufacturers:
Seimens
Bombardier
Kinkisharyo
CAF or Skoda
CT probably won't use Seimens though, It sounds like they are not happy with Seimens.
The new cars likely wouldn't be interoperable with any of the old cars, but that no different than the three sets of non-interoperable cars we have now:
Old U2 LRVs
Older SD160 LRVs (the 2 AC powered U2 cars 2101-2102 can operate with these)
Newest SD160 LRVs
Adding a fourth set of non-interoperable cars wouldn't be a problem. They might get some features that will improve the design (married pairs or fully walkable consists)