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Posted by Sand Box John on Sun Jul 20 21:25:48 2014, in response to Still looking good in Concourse Yard, posted by r17-6599 on Sun Jul 20 18:55:20 2014. If I had $25 million and a set of shop drawing I would commission the manufacture of 12 50' cars, 2 6 car sets, based on said shop drawing to fit within WMATA's load gauge for daily operational service.Outwardly they would look like New York R-9s and be equipped with propulsion hardware of that era. Their structural parts of the cars would be made of steel and composites with light weight composite interior and exterior panels with simulated rivets and ride on inboard frame trucks, surplus trucks from the retired 1k cars, to keep their weight down to the weight of an existing WMATA 8 car train. They would be equipped with roll signs using the same font style displaying all of the various WMATA terminal station pairs and would be painted the same green and have Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority lettered on their sides using the same font style as on the New York R-9s. No Metro M logo, No Metro disco ball logo. They would be equipped with all of the necessary hardware to operate them either manually or automatically under the supervision of WMATA's train control and signaling system and be equipped to allow the option of running the 12 car train with a mid train conductors position for the opening and closing of doors. Now that would be a site rolling into the Morgan Boulevard, Navy Yard or Galley Place stations after a game against one of the New York pro sports teams. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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