Talk:Colorado Railcar

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[edit] Too Many Photographs

The quantity and quality of the photographs used here is questioned. There should only be 1 photo per article. They were poorly inserted and were interferring with the flow of text.

Five things. First, don't make a dozen minor edits and save each time. Edit many times, save once. Second, regarding your comment on having too many photos on that page, where in the Wikipedia article guidelines does it say to have only one image? BC Rail has ten images and it's a featured article. Third, the page needs more written content. That will help with page formatting. Fourth, the images' quality are what they are. Since Wikipedia requires free licenced or public domain images, the amount of available images is limited. If you don't like them, take your own superior images and submit them. Finally, you are free to fix it yourself if you don't like something. MrHudson 02:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

(P.S. Sign your comments)

To clarify, I meant too many for the size of the article. Can we expand the article? I love domes and the single level ultradomes.

trezjr 01:43, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I did remove 1 photo today, because there simply isn't enough text to justify 3 photos that take up more room than the article.

If you want to replace it, add more text.

trezjr 01:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DMUs

Quoth the article:

The Colorado Railcar DMU is a niche offering. The Colorado Railcar DMU is a niche offering. Where passenger trains run on active freight lines, US Federal regulations dictate the use of heavy rolling stock. This regulation prohibits the use of lighter, more advanced Japanese and European models -- except in cases where time segregation has been implemented."

This is a sort of confusing paragraph. It seems to imply (though doesn't come right out and say) that the Colorado Railcar DMUs aren't up to FRA regs. However, I thought the whole point of their DMU offering is that it can be run on active freight lines, unlike the European and Japanese cars. If it can't, then on what basis does it compete with those "more advanced" offerings? --Jfruh (talk) 00:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)