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What do you think of these guys? (aussie.zone)

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[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Personally I'm not a huge fan of them in their current use case, however I think little diesel rail cars like it would be very useful as shuttle services in places who've lost their passenger service due to lack of patronage, or just don't have a very good one.

There's a few ideas that come to mind as better use cases them going to and from Seymour all day:

They could run shuttles between Ballarat-Geelong

-They could run shuttles on the outer edges of the network which currently have quite poor service (Ballarat-Maryborough, Traralgon-Bairnsdale, Bendigo-Echuca, etc)

Some could be gauge converted and run Ararat-Horsham shuttles, or Ararat-Portland

I really think single DRCs still have a place in 2024. Vlocities can be nice, but 3 car set shuttles do seem a bit overkill for some of the above services. I don't think there's many people who'd rather have no service/a crappy coach over a single car sprinter shuttle to the nearest station