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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Oct 17 13:39:58 2021, in response to Re: The RFW Served a Purpose, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Oct 17 07:50:29 2021. There are (somewhat) modern heavy rail vehicles that are not automated that have a "railfan view" The Budd cars that are in Baltimore (and formerly in Miami) have this In those systems, unlike NYC, the operator sits on the left side. I have not yet ridden the current MDT cars, so I don't know what their configuration is. The Breda cars in L. A. have an almost identical configuration to the Budds. The last time I was in L. A. (1999) they had tinted the RFV window so you could hardly see through it (doesn't help that unlike the other systems, the B (Red) and D (Purple) lines are entirely underground). I don't know if the tint remains. Other systems like BART do not have a RFV. The "A" cars (slanted cab cars) you kinda had one, but the seat by the door to the cab faced away from the cab, so if you sat sideways, you could kinda see something. The "C" cars (cab cars with flat faces so they can also be placed mid-train) had no view whatsoever. Like Miami, I have not ridden the newest BART cars, so no idea what their configuration is like. The only other modern system I have ridden is MARTA, but I was not in the lead car either time. |
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