I’m looking for information on the Danish-built IC series DMUs. I’m particularly looking for anything about their test in Hiawatha Service between Milwaukee and Chicago in the mid 1990s. Anything is appreciated! Cheers and Thanks! ~METRO
Wiki, has a good synopsis of the IC3 DMUs, the Danes also have a EMU version. The set that toured the US went to Israel after refurbishment.
The Dasnish flexiliners that Amtrak borrowed were Israel Railways units. They came to Israel first tabout twelve years ago. They are a four-truck-three-body articulated car about 150 feet long. They are unique in having a end control station that swings out of the way to one side (forget if right or left) as a large, but not quite full width, door passenger between cars with very fat sort of doughnut diaphrams permantly mounted on the front. They are quiet and fast and comfortable. They are used in the Malcha Shopping Center (supposed to be the Jerusalem RR Station but really isn’t) - Tel Aviv service and Rehovot - Tel Aviv - Kfar Saba suburban service. Tel Aviv has excellent suburban service at the present moment, not like Jerusalem or Haifa. These trains usually have two of the three-section cars, often three. 70-80% of the total service is provided by Alstom double-end cab diesels with EMD prime movers with Bombardier double-deck push pulls, approximatley the same type you will see in suburban service in many European cities. The diesels on the push-pulls are as noisy as the noisiest suburban EMD power can be in the USA or Canada, but the ride in double-deck cars is smooth quiet and comfortable. The longest possible train trip is Israel, say from Demona in the south to Naharia in the north, is less than four hours. The double deck push pulls are generally three, four, or five-car trains.
I have read in an automotive styling magazine that Pinin Farrina has done a job on a new IE4 train for Denmark, with ends more like the early UP and IC streamliners and great attention to interior design.