eBART

Alright, hello everybody, and welcome to Modeling U.S. DMU Transit Systems, Part 8, the East Contra Costa County BART Extension, or eBART.

This is Part 8 in an ongoing 12-part series describing my journey to bicycle, ride, and photograph all 10 DMU systems in the United States, so if you want, feel free to check out all of those other videos.

Stardate, 2018, Dateline, Northern California.

It is built at a different gauge from the BART trains, it forces a transfer, it has a separate and duplicative operations and maintenance facility, none of it is future-proofed for later BART extension, and then there's effectively no walkable urbanism at all around any of the stations.

Like, the jokes just write themselves at this point.

Anyway, eBART uses a fleet of eight stock-standard Stadler GTW 2.6s.

It was the last system in the United States to use the GTW platform, and these are very familiar numbers.

41 meters long, 37 metric tons, 800 horsepower, 120 kilometer per hour capable, and 104 seats onboard.