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Re: Is There an Update on the R160's Wheel Wear Problem? |
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Posted by heypaul on Wed Mar 12 19:46:09 2025, in response to Re: Is There an Update on the R160's Wheel Wear Problem?, posted by zac on Wed Mar 12 19:05:39 2025. . It's been a bit of a mystery as to what happened. There is some sense that it is ATO operation and hard braking that has caused it, but if that were the case both passengers and crew would have noticed. These cars have been in service 15-20 years already and only now are having this problem so it must be something that changed recently, and there are a finite number of changes, a small one at that.In my work we'd when something suddenly stopped working that would be the first place we'd look, "What changed???" That would be too logical for the MTA though. Were specific series of 160's assigned to let's say the F and another set to the E or could they be reflagged as they were put in service each day? If there was no clear assignment, that would make contact tracing harder. Back in January, it was suggested that there was a specific section of track that was causing wheel wear. If that's the case, I would have simply not used that section and operated the affected lines in two sections and institute bustuition to provide a smooth trip. |
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