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Posted by ChicagoPCCLCars on Fri May 9 00:09:54 2008, in response to Re: PHOTOS: South Shore and Metra Electric Monday, posted by Olog-hai on Thu May 8 22:41:41 2008. A few corrections are in order, Olog-hai. Even if Bob had traveled all the way to Michigan City, he would have never seen the "new" NICTD bi level cars...the first one isn't expected until November of this year for testing. Revenue service won't be had until well into 2009.Yes, "Highliners" is the approved nickname for ex IC/Metra Electric cars but it isn't known yet whether the NICTD cars will garner the same name tag. The new Metra Electric cars are included under the old name. The NICTD cars are expected to run only as six car trains between Gary and Chicago, so they will seldom be seen east of there, like Michigan City, South Bend, etc. No "street running" either. And they will have end vestibules and stairs for low level platform loading. David Harrison |
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