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Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more
(11-23-2018, 10:33 PM)plam Wrote: I've posted about US FRA rules, right? Apparently they're now more flexible:

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/11/23/u...rain-cars/

I love this quote from that article:

Quote:Former Amtrak CEO David Gunn complained U.S. trains had to be designed like “high-velocity bank vaults.” Rather than just bulk up, European and Asian trains instead are designed to absorb impacts and avoid collisions in the first place. And they have better safety records.
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RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more - by KevinT - 11-26-2018, 01:04 PM

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