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[Ham549]

Ya but the floating train... I wonder if it can run on it's own in the water. Do you think they converted it that far? Cool idea should of done somthing like that with the Red Birds take the subway to the stuatue of liberty... lol

[Ham549]

Oh and I diden't know about the recration before I posted so its not like I already knew.

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Ham549

Ya but the floating train... I wonder if it can run on it's own in the water. Do you think they converted it that far? Cool idea should of done somthing like that with the Red Birds take the subway to the stuatue of liberty... lol

Its probably just sitting there. If they wanted power, they would just get a normal engine.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by coborn35

Apears to be French.

Its Dutch, France is the same colors, just vertical strips

[MStLfan]

CM7014 is basically correct.
One end car of our modern intercity doubledecker trains (normally a 4 or 6 car affair after the recent lengthening) was modified with a second cab. It was put on a barge. It was selfpropelled with a diesel engine. Don't know if the diesel was in the train or in the barge.
It moved as a publicity stunt by our national passenger railroad Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) around the Netherlands in the weeks before Sail Amsterdam 2005. Sail is an event that happens every 5 years in Amsterdam around Amsterdam Central station featuring tall and not so tall ships. Amsterdam Central Station was build right in the middle of the old harbor. NS have in 1 week moved around 1.2 million people to the event which was next door to the station. The floating EMU was mainly used for its relations.
There is information on the NS website (www.ns.nl) but is in dutch and doesn't give much more info than this. There is a small photo of the thing in an Amsterdam canal.
This link is to the official website of Sail: http://www.sail.nl/english/news/ns-introduces-sailing-train-during-sail-2005/ but has no photo.
greetings from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Marc Immeker

[Anonymous]

I think in the top photo that track level is what looks like the second "story" of the station.

[Ham549]

I read about that old photo The train crashed through the buffers went across the loby and ended up like it is showen. NYCTA should have taken the floating train idea. Instead of sinking all there red birds turn them into boats or buses. Imagine taking the Satan Island Subway to the statue of Liberty.

[coborn35]

Why? Its a subway car.....

[Ham549]

For the same reson they made the floating train in the pic. Or you could turn it into a bus for areas outside NYC torest would get a kick out of that.

[MStLfan]

As a tourist I would prefer our very modern intercity double deck emu's to old subway cars from the standpoint of comfort,
Maybe a dome car on a barge? Or what about those ex Milwaukee observation cars in lake Erie?
greetings,
Marc Immeker