Bay Area Rapid Transit [BART] Trains @ Powell Street (4/26/22)

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@BLACKSTA361 Жыл бұрын

The acceleration speed of those trains is incredible

@TohaBgood2 2 жыл бұрын

Love the look of those new cars! BART did a great job on this upgrade! I just hope they could put more of them in rotation faster!

@nathanielcoleman5694 2 жыл бұрын

I know they have an end-of-life but man, I’m gonna miss those A and B cars a LOT when they are soon retired, mostly because they’re the last remaining Rohr-made railcars in revenue service

@Qazwsxedc165 2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to miss the AC traction motors on the A and B cars. They may not be original to those cars but they evoke fond memories of my grandma taking me to lunch on BART.

@catvoncrimson666 2 жыл бұрын

The good part is that the western railway museum in Fairfield is going to have an a b and c car as an exibit!

@TohaBgood2 2 жыл бұрын

I love their midcentury modern chic took too, but literally every BART rider I know is complaining about those cars. They are just too old and too fragile to be in service any more. In order for BART to survive it needs to upgrade to modern standards. For better or for worse, Bay Area residents are very well travelled internationally. They have seen how a modern urban rail system is supposed to look and will not accept substandard service that would fly elsewhere in the US. It's an "evolve or die" situation for BART and BART has risen to the challenge with the new cars. They are excellent!

@its-LuqmanVlogs 2 жыл бұрын

I think the Fleet of the Future is much quieter than the 7000 Series in Washington, they're like giant AC units when they pick up passengers. I hope BART doesn't retire all of their Legacy Fleet all at once, just in case something goes wrong with the Fleet of the Future just like the 7000 Series. They can just use the Legacy Fleet for spare cars

@TohaBgood2 2 жыл бұрын

They are doing a staggered release of the new trains. That being said, the old cars are incredibly fragile. The lengths that the BART maintenance crews have to go to keep these things operational are quite insane. These old BART cars were bespoke vehicles due to how exotic the system is. It's incredibly hard to find parts for anything that breaks. In many cases they have to reverse-engineer the whole part and do a small run serial production just to fix a small malfunction. It's crazy that most of these things can even run at this point, let alone that they are in good repair! The sooner they remove the old cars out of rotation the better. The more of these they can cannibalize the cheaper it will be to maintain the rest of the old fleet. Plus the riders hate these old cars with a passion. They are quite awful compared to the new fleet.