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Re: Those new BART cars

Posted by R36 #9346 on Sun Sep 25 11:14:50 2011, in response to Re: Those new BART cars, posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Sep 25 10:19:27 2011.

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I agree that the "rubber thing" is ugly, but apparently, the whole end surrounded by it is a door.

Quoting from the Wikipedia article IC3:
The most significant feature of the IC3 (and its cousins) are the front- and cab-design. When viewed from the outside, the viewer will notice the large rubber diaphragm surrounding a flat cab. The cab is separate department in the train, but the table with the controls are mounted on a huge door, to which the seat is also mounted. When two or more units are coupled together in a single train, the entire front door folds away to give a wide passage, and the rubber diaphragms at the ends form a flush aerodynamic seal.

There are photos of this on the Wikipedia page.

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