by Tadman
"Almost all the steel castings in question, manufactured for Canada-based Bombardier by joint venture partner Sifang foundry in Qingdao, China, were substandard and will be replaced, CTA officials said. Sifang is no longer working on the CTA contract, they added."
Looks like they were wise to pull the fleet. It's a shame BBD couldn't get their act together and find this problem at the assembly point, it's going to cost them a quite a bit to repair this once the fleet is in Chicago.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 8442.story
Looks like they were wise to pull the fleet. It's a shame BBD couldn't get their act together and find this problem at the assembly point, it's going to cost them a quite a bit to repair this once the fleet is in Chicago.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 8442.story
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.