I saw a thing on twitter that the SLE cars are now banned west of new haven and this is what holding up the return of the stamford express return
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BandA wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:49 pm I have manual doors in my house and car. Never had much difficulty operating them.Chances are you won’t fall out of your house at 60+ mph if one manages to open unintentionally. And your car doors open outward, which makes them very difficult to open when in motion. Train doors open inward, allowing Darwin candidates the ability to nominate themselves for the award.
gregorygrice wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am Manual doors.They have had manual doors since acquired by Metro North. Makes no sense to deem them "unsafe" on the New Haven Line (AFTER allowing them to operate as they are for years), while allowing them to operate on the Springfield Line and Shoreline East services.
XBNSFer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:15 pmMetro-North has never "acquired" any of these cars. They are owned by and maintained by ConnDOT for use on Shore Line East (and now also the Hartford Line). MNR agreed to run them for those 4 SLE round trips. That has since been changed due to the reasons listed above...gregorygrice wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am Manual doors.They have had manual doors since acquired by Metro North. Makes no sense to deem them "unsafe" on the New Haven Line (AFTER allowing them to operate as they are for years), while allowing them to operate on the Springfield Line and Shoreline East services.
As to the comment about which way the doors open, I have not ridden on the recently acquired cars for the expansion of Springfield Line service, but the Mafersa cars are sliders, they don't open "in."
Was the "special instruction" the result of an "incident" involving the doors, or did the "standards" just magically change?
gregorygrice wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am Manual doors.So do the Mafersas have a door light or not? SLE west was removed because of crew change politics I think. Covid was a PR excuse. The fact that SLEs loiter WEST of stamford for 30 mins, and then sit another 20 minutes on track 2, before boarding, at the peak of rush hour. SLE is a capacity killer at Stamford until someone rewrites the time table, and sacks multiple middle management folks in operations. "SOGR", Atlantic Avenue Bridge, (Elm is next), Walk bridge. And maybe MNRR stole SLE's slots for Danbury shuttles orig from Stamford during rush. Maybe once the stalled Track 7 at Stamford project finishes, SLE can terminate on T7. 2 track railroad remember.
Erie-Lackawanna wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:20 pmHas this ever happened? We used to see EL run doors open in the Northeast for years. Still happens in Portugal - I must've closed 10 doors on the Douro Valley train last spring at 55mph (90kph?). I know it seems scary having a door open at speed, but the ultimate arbiter of what is safe and not safe is the historic numbers.
Chances are you won’t fall out of your house at 60+ mph if one manages to open unintentionally.