GirlOnTheTrain wrote:Pulled from service after a couple hours with two BIEs...really promisingPlease define "BIEs". Thank you!
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GirlOnTheTrain wrote:Pulled from service after a couple hours with two BIEs...really promisingPlease define "BIEs". Thank you!
trainbrain wrote:Problem is they cannot keep the R32's and R42's in service forever. The R42's are supposed to be retired once the M shuttle is done, and I don't see how the R32's last until 2022. They may well need to retire some or all of both fleets before the replacements are fully in service, and that would mean car shortages and service cuts.If PATCO can keep running its 1968 Budd cars for another two decades and VIA has the Sudbury-White River RDCs dating back to 1955 in daily service, the R32s can make it to 60. If the R179 keeps getting problems in acceptance, there may be no other choice. Back in the early 1990s, the R30s were retired (officially for lack of AC), leaving a car shortage on the B Division for years. The R143s ending up being the de facto replacements for R30s.
Dozens of cars built by Bombardier for the latest train model — known as the R179, which now run on the J/Z and C lines — were sidelined this week after suffering from different kinds of maladies, from door problems, propulsion issues and air compressors, sources told The News.
Allan wrote:What do you expect from BOMBardier?Allan: Pullman-Standard (before they went out of the carbuilding business) built the R46 cars.
It is the R46 all over again.