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Just shows you how bullshit Metra is with all the delays and broken trains. They want to blame the weather. Yet you got trains that work in the desert and in Canada blasting through 12ft of snow.
Metra's EMD locomotives date back to the late 1970's... Some of their cars are even older, especially on the UP lines. The Mauritania Railway took those EMD SD70's probably some time in 2011, as the order was placed in 2010. Get back to me in 2052 how those SD70's are doing.
Age, wear and tear play a pretty significant role too.
And then to top it all off, when Metra did get new locomotives (Motive Power MP36H's), they were a disaster and had no where near the longevity/durability of the aged EMD units. So Metra purchased a couple F40PH's from a museum, some old F40PH's from Amtrak's retired fleet IIRC, and even brought back a couple of even older F40C's (dating back to the early 70's), that the MP36H's replaced...
So much so was the MP36H experiment a disaster, as well as being much cheaper, that Metra has actually rehabbed (or in the process of rehabbing) those 40+ year old locomotives.
Are you saying the locomotives they run are not junk
Do you ride Metra daily?
Why are these trains delayed every other day due to mechanical issues?
Edit: I am on the UP-NW Line (Chicago to Harvard)
F40PH number 100, which I think is the very first one they bought, was pulling my train the other day, still in its original paint job.
The only thing about those old engines is that they're loud and inefficient.
However, I'm shocked at how rusted out and janky the P36's are already. I remember when they bought them and it doesn't seem that long ago. At least they have a APU for coach power, which Metra is finally using after decades of not using them for some reason. They are much quieter and cleaner when they are using them.
Metra's EMD locomotives date back to the late 1970's... Some of their cars are even older, especially on the UP lines. The Mauritania Railway took those EMD SD70's probably some time in 2011, as the order was placed in 2010. Get back to me in 2052 how those SD70's are doing.
Age, wear and tear play a pretty significant role too.
And then to top it all off, when Metra did get new locomotives (Motive Power MP36H's), they were a disaster and had no where near the longevity/durability of the aged EMD units. So Metra purchased a couple F40PH's from a museum, some old F40PH's from Amtrak's retired fleet IIRC, and even brought back a couple of even older F40C's (dating back to the early 70's), that the MP36H's replaced, just to maintain proper service levels while the MP36H's were sent back for repairs, software updates, or rebuilt (a few were in crashes if I also recall).
So much so was the MP36H experiment a disaster, as well as being much cheaper, that Metra has actually rehabbed (or in the process of rehabbing) those 40+ year old EMD locomotives.
I had no idea we had this many rail enthusiasts here.
Yes.
Back when I had my power washing company, we got a job cleaning a dead guy off a locomotive. Paid a lot and there wasn't much of him to clean.