SLE/CtDOT VRE Virginia Railway Express Mafersa Coaches

<i> (I think mafersa was budd's brazillian licensee)</i>

Yes. In fact, they built a number of EMUs that looked very much like Silverliner II units.

It's hard to imagine it today, but years ago, there were US manufacturers of rail equipment that enjoyed export success, and Budd was one of the biggest.

SLE can not use the FL-9's on SLE trains because the FL-9's and MNCR/CDOT genesis do NOT have ACSES cab signalling equipment wich is neccesary east of New Haven.

Hey hate to bring up this old thread, but i would be interested to know who originally built these cars for VRE? Also does anyone know if all the doors are powered/trainlined? It looks to me as they have some kind of door latch/handle on them to open and close the doors.

The cars were built in Brasil at Mafersa under licencing from Budd. the cars are an actual Budd design, but were built long after Budd went belly up as rail manufacturer.
The doors are manual with no provisions to make them electrc or air operated.

The 1717 and the 1719 were brought from Kawasaki to New Haven on Saturday night (12/22/07).

MTASUPT wrote:The 1717 and the 1719 were brought from Kawasaki to New Haven on Saturday night (12/22/07).

Odd number cars are bathroom cars??

Bob K

Any of the Mafersa cab cars coming on line anytime soon?

There are a few of them in service, they have just not been on the Stamford trains I believe.

I may be riding SLE to Guilford sometime in the next week, and hope to have a Mafersa cab car, rather than a shoreliner, not that I dislike the Shoreliners. I would like to have something different for a change.

Otto Vondrak wrote:Any of the Mafersa cab cars coming on line anytime soon?

They've been online for a month IINM.



Coincidentally, I rode it today[/img]

I had a Mafersa cab pulling my train to Guilford. they look very good.

Cabs don't pull trains , their pushed by that noisy thing called locomotive at rear of train.

Nice shot Fred.

the new cab cars are a nice ride. dual heaters/dual windows/dual wipers


Except the radio sounds like garbage no hand held mike

DutchRailnut wrote:Cabs don't pull trains , their pushed by that noisy thing called locomotive at rear of train.

Nice shot Fred.

LOL, that noisy oil burning thing! Thanks Dutch.

I haven't seen the cab cars on the Stamford trains, so that's what prompted my question.