Re: [CBQ] Gallery Cab Car Replacements

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

What about the car that was Wabashed by the Wabash
Peeled the side right off
SJH




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From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, November 6, 2009 1:36:51 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Gallery Cab Car Replacements

   
sjl asked, "If the cabs are being removed from the ex-Q cab cars, what are they 
using for cab cars these days?"

The Metra Japanese designed cars that have less crash-worthiness than the Budd 
cars they are replacing.

The tuition for the Naperville Wreck lessons may have to be paid for again.   
At least Metra doesn't operate any of those tin-foil construction Bombardier 
Canadian bilevels that the BNSF
commuter services people love so much.   After seeing what happens to them when 
one runs into a car, much less a locomotive, I'd never ride in one, especially 
at the head end of a train.
They literally shredded apart in the two incidents in California.

Charlie Vlk

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