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On 2 January 2018, Bombardier Transportation announced that New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) had exercised an option for 17 additional Bombardier ALP-45 dual-power locomotives. This order is valued at approximately US$160 million (€133 million) and is based on a contract for 26 locomotives signed in 2008. NJ Transit exercised a first option for nine units in 2011, and the contract includes options for up to 37 more.
This option order is confirmation of the confidence NJ Transit has in our highly innovative, energy-efficient, reliable, and safe equipment,” said Benoit Brossoit, president of Bombardier Transportation’s Americas Region. “The new locomotives will comply with the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s] Tier 4 Exhaust Limits, making them environmentally friendly, which is especially important in a metropolitan area like New York.”
NJ Transit ordered these machines dual-power despite their greater cost and weight, making them power hogs compared to separate diesel or electrically powered locomotives. Their power costs are higher compared to single-power locomotives because they are heavier, so they can operate under both diesel power and AC electric power from overhead sources.
On the plus side, this flexibility enables the locomotives to operate across the entire NJ Transit rail system, which includes both electrified and nonelectrified lines, thus allowing passengers to ride a single train between New Jersey and New York City’s Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) without having to change trains or for NJ Transit to change the locomotives en route.
The through trains from the NJ Transit Raritan Line, which is nonelectrified, to Penn Station in New York City (NY), which can be reached only through the electrified tunnel between Newark, NJ, and Penn Station, NY, are very popular.
Full article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 13, Number 2, June 2018 |
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