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Posted by Sand Box John on Mon Feb 20 15:16:38 2012, in response to Re: WMATA: 7k prototype car pictures, posted by randyo on Mon Feb 20 14:00:14 2012. Although BART never had a surface counterpart, from what I have seen, it seems to operate a lot like a bus system. When I was there for the ERA convention, I was riding back from Oakland and the "operator" stopped the train at an employee only platform near one of the yards and was relieved by another operator much the same way bus operators are relieved enroute.Some of the operators begin and end their shifts at terminal stations as well, as some trains are stored overnight at the platform of the terminal station or in the tail tracks beyond. 4 of those terminal stations are Largo, Huntington, Springfield-Franconia and Vienna. None of those terminal stations are directly accessible to a yard. The Lagro tail track do have a small maintenance facility that is not really a "depot" where an operator would begin or end their shift at. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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