BostonUrbEx wrote:When the North Side has bilevels, it is typically one per consist, maybe two.
8th Notch wrote:There currently is an 8 car bi level set running on the south side, usually has been on 508 the last week. That's the biggest set running and probably will be as big as it gets for a normal peak hour train.
8th Notch wrote:There currently is an 8 car bi level set running on the south side, usually has been on 508 the last week. That's the biggest set running and probably will be as big as it gets for a normal peak hour train.
Tracer wrote:I believe the foxboro train has run about 12 cars on occasion.
daytripper1 wrote:Regarding set makeup: prior to the original Ks, we ran up to 9 car flat sets. When the Ks showed up we would run 6 or 7 car sets, with the flats almost always behind the loco. A few years ago the switching crews were told to just throw the sets together and NOT to "organize" them, so we now have sets like a K control car, flat, K, 2 flats and a K, or other kind of goofy setups.
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