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Re: WMATA's Kawasaki Rail 7000-rail car series full scale model |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Oct 7 08:28:16 2012, in response to Re: WMATA's Kawasaki Rail 7000-rail car series full scale model, posted by Joe V on Sun Oct 7 07:48:13 2012. And I think they have made the decision to get more 7K's rather than rebuild the 4K's to be compatible, which are currently junk.To be precise, there has been a proposal to replace the 4k cars one for one with 7k cars instead rehabilitating them to be compatible with the 7k cars. The only advantage I can think of for rehabilitating 4k cars, provided they are not rehabilitated into 4 car sets, is the ability to run them with 7k cars in 6 car trains. As far as I know WMATA has not exercised any options one way or the other beyond the 164 "serial production". WMATA will at some time in the future have to replace the rest of the aluminum rolling stock. Replacing them with nothing but 4 car sets will make it imposable to run 6 car trains. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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