Quote Originally Posted by kisshmet View Post
Now that sumitomo is back..were there no more problems with spare parts of the train coaches?

What sumitomo were doing before was cannibalize part from one train after another that falls apart. The problem wasn't glaring then bcoz sumitomo started with more trains to cannibalize. After all theres strength in numbers.

Through the years the number of available train coaches dwindled which eventually resulted in the dearth. The only solution to the problem with the paucity of running coaches is replacement of the old. That's what those dalian train purchase was for. Then again it was politicized as overweight & unfit for the rails (proven otherwise by the 3rd party auditor hired by the duterte admin)

Again those coaches are of old design..no longer being manufactured..can be fabricated to the limits of any good fabricator

This govt can proceed on using the dalian coaches..improve the rails..improve the power supply..improve the signaling system

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Would like to ask as i don't recall it... Where was it revealed that sumitomo themselves cannibalized from working trains and never brought them back to working condition? Thanks.

Regarding the dalian trains, please correct me if i am wrong, didn't they only supply a carcass? No working motors, singaling integration equipment etc? Basically no one was actually willing to pay dailan to design and supply a complete train that would work with mrt3 system, right?

If you have to have dalian design and supply a complete train for mrt3, that would incur mlre costs and the dalian train price of the first 3 units won't be equivalent then.

I'm not saying it can't be done but just that the price is not the same.

Then who would maintain? Dalian or the local mish mash again?

If dalian, they'd also have to change all systems to suit their equipment so it isn't as simple.