by RenegadeMonster
Do any pictures of the café car exist? I have never been able to find a picture of it and see how it differs from other MBTA Cars.
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Yellowspoon wrote:Are the engines really that unreliable? What's the mean time between failures?The MBTA's locomotive fleet is the least reliable in the country by a pretty substantial distance. MDBF overall was last reported as around 8000 miles (LIRR's diesel fleet manages around 40,000 miles between failures and their EMUs run about 300,000 miles between failures), with the HSP46s improving that figure. So it's about 1% of Cape Flyer runs would expect to have a locomotive failure. However, because of the distance and the level of service (both frequency and also the $ paid by passengers) the effect of a CF failure far exceeds a failure just about anywhere on the rest of the system.
leviramsey wrote:If you have been reading the delays column you know that at least one engine breaks down most every day! And since they have an active roster of about 90, that's like driving your car and breaking down every three months.Yellowspoon wrote:Are the engines really that unreliable? What's the mean time between failures?The MBTA's locomotive fleet is the least reliable in the country by a pretty substantial distance. MDBF overall was last reported as around 8000 miles (LIRR's diesel fleet manages around 40,000 miles between failures and their EMUs run about 300,000 miles between failures), with the HSP46s improving that figure. So it's about 1% of Cape Flyer runs would expect to have a locomotive failure. However, because of the distance and the level of service (both frequency and also the $ paid by passengers) the effect of a CF failure far exceeds a failure just about anywhere on the rest of the system.
RenegadeMonster wrote:Do any pictures of the café car exist? I have never been able to find a picture of it and see how it differs from other MBTA Cars.
GP40MC1118 wrote:July 3rd has 74 and no bikes out of Boston. 67 plus 8 bikes out of Hyannis on the return.I just wanted to weigh in on the number count for July 3rd from Hyannis back to Boston. I was on that train and there were at least 65 passengers in my car ( 520 ) alone as well as a lot more in all the other cars . 1529 was opened at BB to take even more. I'm wondering if this count is incorrect?
July 4th had 47 and 2 bikes out of Boston. The return trip had 314 & 13 bikes with 338 & 15 bikes into Boston.
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