Home
»
Trains Magazine
»
Forums
»
General Discussion
»
Amtrak - "Downeaster" - hoped for service

Edit post

Edit your reply below.

Post Body
Enter your post below.
I have a sane, rational, and workable solution to all this.The New England states should create a regional aliance, hire an engineer to design a lightweight bi-directional 50-80 passenger lightweight, low slung, hybrid powered (turbo diesel generator set with battery operation in cities) shuttle car with remote control capable of up to 100 mph and handling less than ideal trackage.These could replace buses in interurban and inter-airport service.They could be operated multi-car where needed could link in under utilized airports like Portsmouth, Berlin ,and Lebanon,NH (I am sure there are more of this type). The aliance would own and maintain the cars and AMTRAK could use them where their own trains are not allowed to run by the railroads.The whole system could be computer controlled and credit card operated so no train crews or station agents and the automated system would have satelite backup and monitoring.Use aircraft type seating and seatbelts for safety and the batteries could give airfraft-like acceleration-deceleration (motors recharging the batteries for added braking).Having a lot of them with no crews means you can place spares over the sytem to be used when traffic becomes heavy and all controlled by computers monitoing passengers.We have the technology to do it, too bad we can't replace the politicians with computers.
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag