A few nights ago Primetime on ABC, aired a segment on how cabcars are not safe, ( they refered to them as "coffin cars") since there is no locomotive leading the trainset and since a headon collision in a cabcar could prove fatal. The program only talked about cabcars on the MetroLink syst...
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Safety of cabcars
by RearOfSignal ¦ Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:49 pm ¦ Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦ Topic: Safety of cabcars ¦ Replies: 15 ¦ Views: 2206- Discover RAILROAD.NET
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