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JDC Did I miss something where "Monroe" was dropped from the Herndon station's name? Prior to the planning of the Silver line the Park and Ride was named Herndon Monroe. Herndon Monroe was the name of the station in the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project environmental impact statement and ...

Silver Line Extension transferred to Metro's control Press Release 06 23 2022 wmata.com Metro took control of the Silver Line Extension today at 6:00 a.m. This milestone, known as the "Operational Readiness Date" (ORD), marks the point where provisional care and control of the Extension –...

dcmike For WMATA specifically, this is where design sort of failed. Aesthetics won out over function in station layout which limits passenger circulation (think the inefficient characteristic U-shaped escalator layout in many underground stations). When say the "U-shaped escalator layout"...

JDC This caught my attention: "To date, the investigation [into the derailment] has found no evidence of failures related to maintenance or manufacturing of the equipment," meaning the wheelsets. What? Caught your attention, hell it made me shake my head. More double speak we get from WMA...

scratchyX1 Electrification was freight only, and through Virginia Avenue tunnel. First Street can't clear double decker cars, and have wire. It cannot clear space under, because of metro rail, and can't really make space on top. And, as has been noted elsewhere, would not even be built with today's...

west point Does this project have anything to do with the eventual track work and platform work at the station? The escalator replacement is taking place in the 7th and Maryland Avenue entrance to the L'Enfant Plaza Metrorail Station. It has no connection to any planed projects at the L'Enfant Plaz...

west point Isn't the axel and / or wheel tapered to resist the press on? Could be a test to the original spec passed but was not the correct spec? Maybe the dimensions were not proper, and another 1 /1000 would have met requirements. If they are tapered then pressing them with greater force would m...

STrRedWolf https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2022/04/manufacturer-of-metros-sidelined-railcars-outlines-communication-issues-with-the-agency/ Kawasaki Rail Car, which manufactured the long-sidelined 7000 series, was asked by Metro to press wheels onto axles with more force, following failed wheelset insp...

Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Pictures 04 03 2022 All of the construction has been completed. The MWAA announced substantial completion of the mainline and stations of Phase II of the Silver line on 11 04 2021. On 12 01 2021 they announced substantial completion of Dulles Yard. WMATA has taken ...

After more then 4 years of knowing of the problem with bad wheels set, WMATA has yet to implement a program to replace the the bad wheel sets with new ones. Had WMATA implement such a program after learning of the wheels set problem, the Rosslyn derailment likely would have never happened and none o...

danib62 Right but why is it taking 6 whole weeks for full time shut down to tie in the station? Tying in NoMa only required two weekend shutdowns. There should be a way to do this while preserving service except for some night and weekend closures. The NoMa tie in was in a confined area that did no...

STrRedWolf I can't see these being shipped by semi-hauler. I'm looking at a recent (2022) Google Maps Satellite view of Greenbelt's yard... and it looks very hard to do that. Meanwhile, you got NYC MTA R32 subway cars being hauled away for scrap via freight train consists, SC-44's and passenger car...

STrRedWolf I see a possible redevelopment spot where they could build the factory and a test track... and have a connection to CSX. That'll then be a straight shot route (no hand-offs) to the Greenbelt yard. scratchyX1 I assumed that would be the case, i guess that the new cars would go over the fo...

New $70M Md. factory that will build Metro’s railcars to create hundreds of jobs
Luke Lukert
wtop.com
03 21 2022 0612

STrRedWolf That said, you'll still have what I mentioned earlier. It's all going to be Blue Line. No Yellow on the Green, it'll make no sense. You *may* get a Yellow up to Regan National, use that middle track for the turn-around point... which gets into some operational questions: Would they open ...