Milwaukee_F40C wrote:
The Highliner article on Wikipedia has a link to specifications and drawings for Bombardier cars:
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MF40C: Interesting comparison of two other Bombardier car types/orders to the late 70s RTA Highliner add-on order...
I remember the LIRR M7 drawings and plans well - the LIRR ended up with a fleet of 836 of these cars (7001-7836) and at the same
time Metro-North ordered 338 M7a cars (4000-4337) for a total of 1174 cars if my math is correct...
The drawing shows the LIRR car interior variation - MNCR's seat layout is literally the exact opposite of what the LIRR cars have...
I have never ridden or seen diagrams of the Montreal MR70 MU car and to me their strangest feature is the end door design...
I am not a fan of only using facing seats - a seat layout more resembling the M7s would be preferable-at least to me...
The Bombardier Highliner is a heavy weight MU car averaging 140,000 pounds - they outweigh LIRR's retired M1 MU cars by 50,000
pounds (M1s weighed 90,000 pounds) and the M3s by 30,000 pounds each...I was sort of surprised that such a heavy MU car can
use the relatively low voltage of 1500 VDC but they do - and as we know they have served the IC,RTA and Metra well over time...
I am glad that the IRM is involved with the Highliner retirement and will preserve at least one pair of each car type-the St. Louis Car
original and the Bombardier RTA add-on and it makes me wish that the IRM could have helped perhaps preserve two of SEPTA's now
retired former Silverliners - one PRR vintage Silverliner Two (1963) and one St.Louis Silverliner Three (1967-20 total built) instead of
all but one going to scrap as far as I know ( RDG S2 9001 for the Reading Company Technical Society) because once the're gone...
MACTRAXX
EXPRESS TRAIN TO NEW YORK PENN STATION-NO JAMAICA ON THIS TRAIN-PLEASE STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING TRAIN DOORS