Doors don't open in sharp turns? that's weird.
If the skirts are too constricting they should switch to miniskirts.
If the skirts are too constricting they should switch to miniskirts.
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BandA wrote:Doors don't open in sharp turns? that's weird.The trailer car's drawbar swings towards the front door when in a right turn. When the door slides open, it would hit the drawbar.
If the skirts are too constricting they should switch to miniskirts.
diburning wrote:What causes the drawbar issue? Is the drawbar attached to the truck? Or does it have some sort of centering mechanism to ensure that the drawbar is always centered over the tracks?The drawbars self center by air.
diburning wrote:What causes the drawbar issue? Is the drawbar attached to the truck?The drawbar is attached to the carbody. The issue here is the front door pops out and slides along the carbody toward the nose. Since the entire door moves in that direction, part of the door obstructs the drawbar's swing clearance. On the Type 7 and 8, the front door is split into two leaves that fold outward and stay within the doorway.
ceo wrote:I don't see that it's a problem at all. The BC platform is nowhere near sharply curved enough for the drawbar to interfere with the door (if it does at all), so the only potential issue is if the train derails in a really tight curve. In that case you don't open the front door.To me the Type 9's are not nearly as horrendous as the 8's, but that is literally the only good thing I can say about them. Type 8's are my least favorite rolling stock in the country, they are just so goddamn ugly with no design whatsoever despite the Pininfarina name on the side(how do you design so many beautiful cars and then the trolley you make into a flying brick. Could not disagree with you more on the 7s. In the new paint scheme they are probably my favorite MBTA rolling stock. It is the interior that really brings you into that mid-90's mindset, with a nice new new interior from the ground up inside the shell of a 7 you would have one smexy trolley.
Honestly, I don't know why people are so down on the looks of the Type 9s. They're not gorgeous, but they're not hideously fugly like the Type 7s. The 7s look like a PCC that got in an accident; at least the 9s look like they might have been built in this century.