Metro didn't follow safety procedures when overhauling the 6000 series cars

Metro mechanics, engineers and technicians do not keep organized records or follow a set of safety procedures when maintaining, inspecting and rebuilding rail cars, contributing to dangerous mishaps such as the separation of two trains last year, according to a new audit.

The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, an agency that Congress created to monitor safety at the transit agency, released a 44-page audit Tuesday analyzing Metro’s rail car maintenance practices. The audit, which included a look at Metro’s troubled and indefinitely suspended 6000 series of cars, pinpointed 12 problem areas and ordered Metro to submit corrective action plans in 30 days.

Built nearly 20 years ago, that series is Metro’s sixth model of rail cars. It went through a restoration and rehabilitation process a few years ago — as most of Metro’s rail cars do — when they had reached the halfway point of their 40-year service lives.

The 6000 series cars, which make up about 15% of the fleet, are still out of service.

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Was this mid life overhaul / rehabilitation done in house or by a contractor off the property? The mid life rehabilitations of the 1, 2 and 3k cars were done by contractor off the property?

I issues in the report reads nearly word for word from a report on a similar investigation done several years ago by the Tri-State Oversight Committee predecessor to the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission.