Can the M-2's take another bad winter?

This could be a pretty rough time for us on the New Haven if the Farmers Almanac is right. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5866798/

They can't keep them running when its 70 degrees and sunny, without having 15% of fleet in shop. so what do you expect if frost or snow starts.

Out of curiosity, what dies on them, or it is just at this point they're so shot that EVERYTHING going bad?

My understanding is that when there is fine snow it gets sucked into the intakes and fouls up the electrical systems. They have been putting diapers on the couplers during snow storms to prevent some of the problems. Dutch would no better and could answer the question better.

i wonder what will happen to the M7a's this winter????????????

LIRR had the M-7's last winter. I had not heard of any problems that were weather related.

it will be a test, the snow in Westchester and putnam is a lot finer and dryer than on Island, the temperature here is a bit nippier than on the Island too.

Does MN have any estimate on what the average mileage of an M-2 car is? I suspect they've got at least a million or so on them already...

probably a bit more, a M2 runs at least 500 miles a day x 300 days or so x 35 years = about 5.25 million miles