by gamer4616
I'm hearing the MARC cars will not be returning this summer season. Can anyone confirm?
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Silverliner II wrote: And, LIRR kept three MARC cars over the winter for use on test trains with C3 cab cars.
Backshophoss wrote:With Amtrak and NJT leasing MARC equipment,there may not be any cars available for a LIRR lease,also MARC has "K" cars still being rebuilt,NJT is supposed to be getting around 20 of them (nobody knows if they have even made the trip north yet).... Amtrak is getting several cab cars (at least three are up in Albany now with one spotted at Harmon after a test run recently). MARC has been using about 2 dozen in service (my count after doing inventory on an entire AM rush last fall) in addition to the rest of their available Kawasaki and multilevel fleet... which still leaves nearly 20 single level cars available for lease without hurting current MARC service even with the few Kawasaki cars out at a time.
that places a "cap" on how many cars can be leased out.
SwingMan wrote:Okay. I just saw a photo somebody shot of an LIRR test train with 3 MARC coaches, a C3 cab and either a DE or DM shoving, and the caption inferred that the photo was shot either in mid-December or early January, hence the basis of my comment "over the winter." If they were gone before that, then away they went... and under the radar at that, since all of us down here missed the return completely.Silverliner II wrote: And, LIRR kept three MARC cars over the winter for use on test trains with C3 cab cars.They did not. The last test trains were in late September-early October, at which point they were sent back.
edflyerssn007 wrote:Any word on the MARC cars for summer service.From what I have heard the MARC cars will not be returning to the LIRR this summer season. I don't know what the LIRR is planning on getting as an alternative solution to the problem they have with the C3 fleet; if there is one? I don't think the LIRR will be leasing any coaches this summer as there may not be any available for lease anywhere? Correct me if I am wrong but the commuters on the Oyster Bay branch will probably have to bear most of if not all of the burden cause the equipment that is used on their trains will be cut by a car or cancelled altogether.
LINYARailfan wrote:From what I have heard the MARC cars will not be returning to the LIRR this summer season. I don't know what the LIRR is planning on getting as an alternative solution to the problem they have with the C3 fleet; if there is one? I don't think the LIRR will be leasing any coaches this summer as there may not be any available for lease anywhere?NJ Transit got a hold of 10 cars and I think SEPTA's leasing another 10 or so as well. Ether way, none left for LIRR.