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 #1440565  by MBTA3247
 
RenegadeMonster wrote:Pretty sure I have seen 3 or 4 1600 series on a 7 car set recently. Only, pretty sure a few of them had their controls deactivated.


Also, recently I saw a set with 4 300 series. Is it just me, or do you not normally see to many 300s on the North Side.

Also, did any 1300s ever exist?
The 1300s were Pullman-built control cars. They were rebuilt into blind cars 245-258.
 #1440600  by jaymac
 
The 08-11-2017 402 had 3 1600s, a bi, another flat, and the 1033. There was a sery2831 post of mebbe a coupla years ago about the number of 1600s that had been deactivated as control cars.
 #1440652  by BandA
 
MBTA3247 wrote:
RenegadeMonster wrote:Pretty sure I have seen 3 or 4 1600 series on a 7 car set recently. Only, pretty sure a few of them had their controls deactivated.


Also, recently I saw a set with 4 300 series. Is it just me, or do you not normally see to many 300s on the North Side.

Also, did any 1300s ever exist?
The 1300s were Pullman-built control cars. They were rebuilt into blind cars 245-258.
Aren't control cars more valuable / in demand than plain coaches? Maybe the controls were worn out/unreliable or obsolete.
 #1440676  by MBTA3247
 
No. If a caboose is leading a train, there has to be a crew member on the platform in radio contact with the engineer in the locomotive.
 #1440953  by RenegadeMonster
 
KevinSun242 wrote:1818 (the cab for the passenger count train) has migrated south again sometime in the past 48 hours. Saw it on service on Newbury/Rockport on Monday, now it's on Framingham.
Might have been sooner than that. Most if not all of last week the passenger count train had a control cab of the 16xx series.

Would they have installed a count camera in the 16xx? Or would they have that car blocked off when counting?
 #1440958  by deathtopumpkins
 
RenegadeMonster wrote: Might have been sooner than that. Most if not all of last week the passenger count train had a control cab of the 16xx series.
From the OL platform at Sullivan just yesterday I saw the set, and it was all bilevels, no 16xx cab.
 #1440967  by KevinSun242
 
deathtopumpkins wrote:
RenegadeMonster wrote: Might have been sooner than that. Most if not all of last week the passenger count train had a control cab of the 16xx series.
From the OL platform at Sullivan just yesterday I saw the set, and it was all bilevels, no 16xx cab.
I know last week 1818 had been sitting in the line of coaches at BET too.
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