"Light Rail" weights next the Sacramento Light Rail....

[Anonymous]

Light Rail Vehicles	Siemens Transportation Systems	Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF)
Model	Single-articulated, Bi-directional	Single-articulated, Bi-directional
Configuration	High floor	High floor
Doors	Bifold	Sliding
Number in fleet	36	40
Length	79' 6"	84'
Width	8' 9"	8' 9"
Height over roof equipment	12' 5"	12' 6"
Passenger Load	64 seated, 80 standing: 144 total	64 seated, 177 standing: 241 total
Empty Weight	38.9 tons	47 tons

[al-in-chgo]

Light Rail Vehicles	Siemens Transportation Systems	Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF)
Model	Single-articulated, Bi-directional	Single-articulated, Bi-directional
Configuration	High floor	High floor
Doors	Bifold	Sliding
Number in fleet	36	40
Length	79' 6"	84'
Width	8' 9"	8' 9"
Height over roof equipment	12' 5"	12' 6"
Passenger Load	64 seated, 80 standing: 144 total	64 seated, 177 standing: 241 total
Empty Weight	38.9 tons	47 tons

How on earth can the CAF vehicle carry more than twice as many standees as the Siemens and be only four and-a-half feet longer?  Are they using Mexico City "crush loads" as the norm??? - a.s.

[daveklepper]

If I remember correctly, the Siemens job had two equipment cabinets that take up space within the passenger compartments, one near each end.   I have not seen the newer equipment, but it may be that all this equipment that was in these two equpment cabinets is roof and/or underfloor mounted in the newer cars.