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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Apr 22 11:32:31 2006, in response to Re: The LIRR President Speaks, posted by Peter Rosa on Sat Apr 22 09:56:37 2006. Notice he didn't say anything about rider (dis)comfort.Nope, not a word. And no one in the audience brought it up either, and there was plenty of time to ask questions of him. The mechanic success of the M7's was quite impressive, even they were amazed. Too bad they couldn't have the comfort of the interiors of the C3's, with the mechanical success of the M7's all in one train. He was pretty clear on how embarrassing the DM/DE30 fiasco was (no he didn't use that word of course - haha). When he touched on why there are not many more dual modes running on the diesel branches he pointed to the failure rate of the DM30's as a reason. They were very hesitant to expand to more dual modes because of the fear of mechanical failure, and thus delays as a result. He did say though that while they are STILL performing underneath the goal of what they should be doing, they have become a little more confident with them, as they are improving. Still far from where they should be, but certainly better than they were. |
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