Rotem Cars Discussion (new bi-level cars)

Should be interesting if there are quality differences between the Korean and US assembled units.

The 841 has made it back from Delaware, I believe this car got hit from a tree several years ago during a nasty storm. And with that car coming back from Delaware, the 1827 appears to be finally headed down south for its repairs.

Are these 4 new Rotem coaches heading east tied to the DPU on the rear of M436 passing the Chester live cam at 0727 Sunday 7/17/22?

Yes...headed to the MBTA...The second group that landed by ship in Baltimore

852, 851, 183*, 183* sitting in the west end of Nevins Yard, 3rd iron, attached to a long cut of cars

The first and original group was 847, 848, 1828, and 1829. The second group was in July which was 849, 850, 1830, 1831. This third group is 851, 852, 1832 and 1833. Unless they somehow didn’t number them in consecutive order, this is what the group numbers are. For each new group, just keep adding one to each digit and you’ll know the coach numbers that arrive. Although the third group, I saw last Friday aside track 1 mainline.

Four new MBTA double deck coaches came east on the marker of CSX manifest M436-09 passing the Westfield cam at 1833 Wednesday 11/9/22.

1834, 1835, 853 & 854

GP40MC1118 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 12:00 am 1834, 1835, 853 & 854

still in Framingham as of Sunday, 11/13 with some paint added by the locals to the cars

You mean graffiti by the local lowlifes? Or standard paint markings by crews?

Locals are not crews...

Five more new Rotems headed east east Monday night 1/16/23 on the marker of M436 - here they are about to pass Springfield Union Station at 1816.

Are the new cars in service yet?

According to NETransit, "847, 848, 1828, and 1829 arrived in Rochester MA in June 2022 to begin acceptance testing, next group of four followed in July 2022, four additional arrived Oct 2022, four additional arrived in Nov 2022, three additional in December 2022, five cars in January 2023. First four in final testing to enter revenue service in Winter 23."

But it appears none are currently in service.

correct, still 0 in service. 4 are sitting on Track 5 in Middleboro, the rest of the new fleet is currently down in Rochester

I was simply told that there is a computer trainline issue, I'll get a more detailed response