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Article #271Re: Has Metrolink got toomuch banged up equipment????
From: Fred B. Young Jr.
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:16
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:16
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Steve Hoskins wrote: > I drove from Orange County to Tehachapi Loop early Saturday 2/1/03. > As I was passing over the Metrolink facility while on the Golden State > Freeway, I looked over and saw a strange sight. > > There was a four-car set of Caltrain gallery cars, with a cab car on > the south end, three trailers....being pushed by one of the Metrolink > F59's (the older variety). The headlight was lit on the cab car. > > All four cars were red-striped, meaning they were either the newer > gallery cars or ones already rebuilt. > > The trainset was up at the other end of the facility when I returned > back to LA area later in the afternoon (slow day at the loop, > trackwork had the line basically shut down...) > > I wonder if they didn't borrow a trainset for awhile...anyoen know?? > (I sure don't!! But I'm curious after what I saw.) Wow, reminiscent of just-post Northridge Earthquake in January 1994, when a set of GO Transit (Ontario, Canada) coaches were borrowed for the increased service on Metrolink. -- Fred B. Young Jr. transitfan@mindspring.com http://www.geocities.com/transitfan/ **note--when replying, remove the "_nospam" from my e-mail address**
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,cd9ffdfc9fcc37dd X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: f59f9,cd9ffdfc9fcc37dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf59f9,public X-Google-Thread: 101735,cd9ffdfc9fcc37dd X-Google-Attributes: gid101735,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-03 12:16:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Fred B. Young Jr." <transitfan@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: la.transportation,ba.transportation,misc.transport.rail.americas Subject: Re: Has Metrolink got toomuch banged up equipment???? Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:16:42 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3E3ECE2A.C5A26EC5@mindspring.com> References: <oljq3vs5r4jdamsf0peq2ki4rmkk7fpbul@4ax.com> Reply-To: transitfan@mindspring.com_nospam NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b9.a5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 3 Feb 2003 20:16:19 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en