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It is now official. Quoting from NJTransit's August Board Agenda:
NJTransit has finally come around to EMUs! Yeah!
The Board meeting has an agenda item for engaging LTK to modify the previous EMU proposal to be based on MPCs and it is expected that a bidding process for very significant number of such MPCs will open in the near future.NJ TRANSIT will replace these outdated Arrow III vehicles with new Multilevel Power Cars (MPCs). These self propelled rail cars will feature all of the customer amenities that are provided on the existing multilevel fleet including two by two seating, but will also include onboard propulsion that will allow the cars to operate without a locomotive.
The MPCs will be mixed with the current fleet of Multilevels to provide self-propelled train sets without locomotives. Since these new train sets will utilize rail cars from existing fleet, there are significant capital cost advantages to these new MPC vehicles versus replacement of the Arrow III fleet on a car for car basis.
NJTransit has finally come around to EMUs! Yeah!