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Posted by WillD on Sat Apr 22 22:42:23 2006, in response to Re: The LIRR President Speaks, posted by tydev417 on Sat Apr 22 22:30:56 2006. No, by my thinking they'd keep stuff around until it had lived out it's useful life. Trashing a high value unit like an EMU after just 30 years is an extremely poor way to run a railroad. I don't care how pissed off the foamers are over the M7's, the simple fact is that by all rights the M1s had another decade in them. It's a sad reflection on the MTA's maitenance forces that they allowed the M1s to get into such sad shape so quickly. Then to make matters worse they went and ordered an EMU which doesn't come close to taking full advantage of the improvement in economy AC traction allows. So they're chopping the M1's lives short, but they aren't getting any real improvement in power consumption to make up for that. |
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