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They look like the locomotive-hauled gallery cars used elsewhere in the Metra system, but WOW what acceleration! Much faster than the diesels!
2 years ago 4
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I absolutely love the sound of the Toshiba propulsion used on the train.
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@cc10266 That is an actual bell under the frame with a clapper.
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they look sweet but the e-bell sucks! nice video
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The sound gives the sense of Japanese Toshiba motors.
2 years ago 2
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i love the new highliners, but they could of did a better job with the design. I also feel that metra deserves to have an electric locomotive too because they sound better than EMU's in my opinion.
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I see the problem with the doors (or lack thereof). The Highliners had the center doors as well as end doors while these cars only have center doors, making passenger ingress and egress only half as efficient as the older Highliners. I'm from Philadelphia originally and none SEPTA's MU's have bells on them; just locomotives and cab cars.
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On another note, Metra recently ordered 160 more of these cars.. which will replace all old equipment. First of the order will arrive in about two years.
metraRI 1 year ago 3
The way I remember this Metra Electric train station was, long time ago there was only a Post Office.
There was no parking lot at the time too.
It was the only train station on the Metra Electric mainline without a parking lot.
The Parking lot came later as time went on.
meerkatmandude 3 years ago 2
That is correct. The parking lot at Olympia Fields has only been in place for about a year. At the time of the video, there was no parking lot... as mentioned, only the Post Office.
metraRI 3 years ago 2
NICTD also just placed an order for 14 similar cars to run on the South Shore Line.
metraRI 4 years ago 2
The overall design is based from Metra's bilevel cars, however some modifications were made to fit Metra Electric... like the stairs under the doors for crews to get off in the yard.
metraRI 5 years ago
The manufacturer is the same company that produced Metra's last order of 300 diesel pulled cars, Sumitomo Corp. They are also producing VRE's latest bilevels.
metraRI 5 years ago