I couldn’t believe it, thought it was a DC subway car at first but looks like it’s BART from San Francisco. Not sure what it’s doing on the DC beltway.
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Craig, I see traffic haven’t gotten any better. But after twenty years of commuting on the DC beltway to work I know your labile to see anything and everything.
This brings to mind something a friend told me. He runs a company that guides wide loads thru streets in New York. Right after Storm Sandy his company was tasked to guide subway cars ( I forget from where)on flatbeds to the Rockaways where they would get a crane and put them on the track so they could run a train from 116 street station into the Far Rockaway stations.I didn't see that but would have loved to.
Maybe somebody’s getting a new train room?….😁
Pat
Interesting.....I knew the DC subway needed new cars.....
Peter
That's the new Purple line extension flatbed service. lol
There's been talk of reinstating the automatic doors and more frequent train service.
It could be going for a rebuild in Delaware.
Alstom in Hornell, NY builds light rail for lines all over the world including the latest Amtrak cars. May have been from there.
Pete
@dkdkrd posted:Maybe on its way to becoming a new home for the fishies??
California (BART) undoubtedly would scorn ban dumping 'trash' in their ocean...ecologically incorrect...polluting the Pacific...cars contain materials "known to the state of California" to be hazardous to the health of the fishies...etc., etc., blah, blah. Better to just ship it to that other coast!
Because of the BART cars aluminum construction, they can't be used as artificial reefs (they'd deteriorate way too quickly). What happens to some of them can be found here: https://www.bart.gov/news/arti.../2022/news20220310-0
It appears to be one of BART's new "Fleet of the Future" cars. The shell bodies of the cars are being fabricated in Mexico, the seats in Indiana, doors made in China, and car body compression testing in Canada. Then it all comes to get assembled at Bombardier in New York. After that, they're trucked to Pittsburgh, CA, then to BART's Hayward, CA test track, where it takes about a month to undergo tests prior to being placed into service. It's part of an order of 775 new cars, which should be completed by mid-2024.
@jim mcclain posted:This brings to mind something a friend told me. He runs a company that guides wide loads thru streets in New York. Right after Storm Sandy his company was tasked to guide subway cars ( I forget from where)on flatbeds to the Rockaways where they would get a crane and put them on the track so they could run a train from 116 street station into the Far Rockaway stations.I didn't see that but would have loved to.
The cars were loaded at Linden Yard in brooklyn They transported them out to Roackaway because Sandy destroyed the Connection to Rockaway
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