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AznSumtinSumtin wrote:Maybe the Flyers are going to get overhauled and get LED destination signs, wheelchair lifts, and ASA. But thats just a fantasy.You, sir, have some peculiar fantasies. The sooner they send the last of those horrible old rattletraps to the scrapyard, the happier I'll be. (I'm already happy not to live on a TT route anymore.)
CSX Conductor wrote:I believe its not so much a yard as a pocket track, akin to Blanford St. or Northeastern, but underground.Robert Paniagua wrote:and they even have a yard there too.Where? In the tunnel somewhere between North Station & the viaduct? First I have heard of anything like that.
aline1969 wrote:They seat 44 people and can hold 80 people... the new ones only seat 31.... do the math!!!Well yes, you inevitably lose seating in a low-floor design, especially with a left-side door hacked into it.
They are proprelled with classic 1950's Pullman motors, this is cool stuff.Those motors (or, more accurately, their control electronics) are the most annoying thing about them: they appear to have two power settings, On and Off, and any attempt at modulation causes lots of jerking back and forth.
Two will be preserved at Seashore, so don't come riding them there if your anti trackless.I'm actually a fan of TTs, I'm just not a fan of obsolete junk.