Rotem Cars Discussion (new bi-level cars)

1855 entered service yesterday.

Cab cars 1828-1831, 1834-1844, 1846, 1848-1851, and 1855 are in service.

blinds 847-50, 853-863, 865, and 867-870, are in service

No K car blinds besides the 900s are north at this point

1854 started service today.

So let me get this straight, we have coaches up to 1857 currently on property? At this rate, we should be done within the next few months or so with this current rotem extension fleet order.

NETransit site says 4 cars per month (I assume 2 cab 2 coaches based on how it's been going so far). Based on that we'll probably get all cab cars on property by August/September if the order isn't delayed.

Just did the math. Were looking at an October wrap up date with 2 cars arriving, 1870 and 886

Anybody know of any dates/times the next batch of Rotem cars get delivered thru Walpole or any way to track the CSX/MC/etc trains they are on? I have a friend who is interested in trying to catch one of the delivery trains.

877, 1858 and 878, 1859 delivered 1/20 & 2/14 respectively.

Freight trains aren’t track able and you have to catch them by luck. Is anything delivered for this month of March yet? I saw up to 1859 for last month.

The first Rotem car to go north is going to be 1826.

I guarantee you that it will be the first. It has been OOS as a spare in BET for 6 months. It's already there in the area, so I bet they will send it to the NS.

I wouldn't be suprised! They're running out of K cars to bring. A few are OOS for various reasons (mainly 00 01 and 21) and they can only get one more k car from the south side, so if they want to keep retiring 1600s, rotems might come.

You also have 1805 which hasn’t been on a set for a while now along with 1803.

And 1819

All rotems have been seen recently but 1805, 1812, 1819, 1826, 1838, 1839 and ofc the rotems that have yet to enter service.

Actually, 1809 is tracking on the north side to my surprize. Are they having those engineers get used to the rotem brake stands too for familiarity?

1809 was on a revenue train at North Station this afternoon.