• Railcar reliability

  • Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.
Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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  by tommyboy6181
 
A long time ago, there were questions and some talk about reliability on the Breda Rehabs, CAF cars, and of course the new Alstom cars. Now that they have all been on the tracks for a while, I wanted to ask the following to see if anything has changed.

1) The Breda Rehabs had issues when they were brought back to the system after the Alstom rehab. Now that they have been running for a while and the project is complete, how is the overall reliability?

2) Same question for the Alstom cars, since there were some issues when they were first brought on line. How have they been performing?

3) Last, we all know of the problems that the CAF cars have been having. Yet, the authority says the reliability has met or exceeded their guidelines. Is this even true?