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Article #165Re: Redbird Visit Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC
From: John R Cambron
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:44
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:44
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John Mara wrote: > > "John R Cambron" <*cambronj@chesapeake.net*> wrote in message > news:tkh9a2hil7ue5a@corp.supernews.com... > > > > As far as I know bart and WMATA metrorail are the only rail transit > > system in North America that use aluminium for there car bodies. > > Boston's Red Line cars in the 1500 and 1600 series (Pullman Standard, > 1969-70) and very similar 1700 series cars (UTDC 1987 - 89) have aluminum > car bodies. The more recent 1800 cars (Bombardier 1993 - 94) are > stainless steel. > > Chicago's 2000 series "L" cars (Pullman Standard circa 1964) had aluminum > car bodies. Later cars were stainless steel. > > Toronto's M1 H1-H6 and T1 cars have aluminum bodies. I stand corrected. I also find it interesting and logical that later cars were built with stainless steel. -- ====================================================================== NT Geek, MCP Transit Geek http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/wmata/ Model Railroader HO N John R Cambron http://www.chesapeake.net/~cambronj/sunbelt/ North Beach MD USA Railroad Geek cambronj@chesapeake.net ======================================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,791d94652811f7f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca13,791d94652811f7f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca13,public X-Google-Thread: fe7c3,791d94652811f7f3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe7c3,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 17:44:46 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: John R Cambron <*cambronj@chesapeake.net*> Newsgroups: nyc.transit,misc.transport.urban-transit,dc.urban-planning Subject: Re: Redbird Visit Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 20:44:28 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <tkkjqgmhuhe5c2@corp.supernews.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <tjshpfbufkjt63@corp.supernews.com> <g1t%6.45613$Md.14357941@typhoon.southeast.rr.com> <slrn9jtqf4.61q.tim@linux.local> <tjuvqjmubl1l6b@corp.supernews.com> <slrn9jv4jl.hs.tim@linux.local> <tk23p5o6asrnad@corp.supernews.com> <slrn9k37li.238.gbyshenk@shell-2.enteract.com> <tk56us2u5m8tcb@corp.supernews.com> <slrn9ke59v.238.gbyshenk@shell-2.enteract.com> <tkh9a2hil7ue5a@corp.supernews.com> <%A527.8814$EF2.845593@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 34