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Re: MIAMI BUDDS RETIRED (Kind of); Spectrum News does story on R32 subway cars |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Jun 21 15:35:21 2021, in response to Re: MIAMI BUDDS RETIRED (Kind of); Spectrum News does story on R32 subway cars, posted by R46 5636 on Sun Jun 20 21:58:50 2021. There was an open house at the Red Line yard in May 1992 held inside the main shop. The 4 Miami cars were parked toward the back. I took pictures, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. The pairs were 126/127 and 141/142 (note: 126/127 is actually a mismatched pair, as at Miami (and L. A. for that matter), the even-numbered car is the higher number (so 126 should have been with 125, and 127 with 128). Instead you have 126/127 and 125/128. Not sure what happened there, at L. A., there are a bunch of mismatched cars. Probably because of the delays at Breda that I previously mentioned, probably RTD just paired whatever odd numbered car with whatever even number car. This was just with the first phase (501-530). the second phase (531-572) and third phase (573-604) are all properly matched (AFAIK, as most of those cars arrived after I left L. A. in mid-1998. I did got back for a visit in late June 1999, and rode the Red Line to Hollywood/Vine, which had just opened weeks earlier).BTW, in May 1992, I had only been to Miami once (in August 1978, when Metrorail was but a gleam in some planner's eye). So the first time I laid eyes on a Miami car was 2,700 miles away from their home. |
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