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Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.net (Mike Quigley) wrote:
>johansen@portal.ca (George Johansen) wrote:
>
>>> Hmmmmm ... weren't there *six* cars to a SkyTrain way back when?  Back in 
>>> the Expo days, maybe?  Wonder how feasible that would be *now* ...
>>
>>The cars can be configured that way when and where warranted.  My
>>understanding is that the stations were designed to accommodate trains up
>>to eight cars in length, but I may be corrected on that.
>
>But why did they stop six-car Skytrains? Wasn't it due to the fact that the
>computers freaked out or something?
>
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When SkyTrain started, the trains were either 2 or 4 cars in length.  A number
of years ago, there was a problem in the software (This may have been when one
of the extensions opened).  To help get the bugs out, they found that they had
to run fewer trains, so to make up for that, they started running 6 car trains.
Once the bugs were out of the software, they returned to 2/4 car trains.