πππππ πΆππππππ πRetired trains from #Montreal 's EXO commuter service are going to be running in #Philadelphia
SEPTA has bought 24 Bombardier railcars (built in 1989) to add to its Regional Rail fleet
There was a time, incidentally, when Philadelphia-made rolling stock was the envy of the world. Now they rely on Canadian hand-me-downs. Sic transit...
Jean-François Mezei@straphanger SEPTA has a huge problem with Silverlibers catching fire and they require much more maintenance. So getting used cars makes it easy to replace part of fleet stuck in maintenance.
senna.apk@straphanger I wish we could have new trains but at least we're replacing the ones that were spontaneously combusting π«
@straphanger those cars were first purchase of new rolling stock by AMT. bombardier had just purchased the IP from Budd and Pullman who pulled out of train manufacturing. Those AMT cars are of the Comet family, inherited from Budd with huge commonality to the SEPTA ones so easily integrated. Bombardier produced Comet cars for SEPTA and NJ Transit as well as using existing content production facility to make Horizon cars for Amtrak. Comet is US designed.