came to Philadelphia<\/a> from Montreal\u2019s Exo transit system, which means they must be adapted to comply with Federal Railroad Administration rules.<\/p>\n\u201cThe FRA sets federal safety standards for things like emergency lighting, signage, brake system maintenance,\u201d explained SEPTA chief of rail equipment, engineering and maintenance Greg Buzby. \u201cSo that\u2019s the majority of the work we\u2019re doing here.\u201d<\/p>\n
That includes details as small as changing signage from French to English and bigger things like retrofitting car doors to accommodate the taller SEPTA platforms. Biggest of all, mechanics at SEPTA\u2019s Frazer train maintenance yard must equip each car with a federally-mandated Positive Train Control system.<\/p>\n
That \u201cis one of the longest lead time items we\u2019ll have to do, and one of the most expensive ones,\u201d said Buzby.<\/p>\n
SEPTA said the new cars should help shore up Regional Rail trains, especially when cars have to be taken out of service for maintenance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be able to start adding these cars onto existing train sets,\u201d said SEPTA general manager Scott Sauer, \u201cso that where a train today might have four cars, we could add a fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sauer said that difference has a meaningful impact for riders.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne extra car means the difference between us having to bypass a station on the inner circle of the region versus being able to stop and accommodate more folks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Along with the new Canadian rail cars, SEPTA is seeking to renew its lease of 10 cars from Maryland to keep the fleet rolling while the agency plans its next-generation Silverliner VI cars. Sauer said they plan to award a contract for those vehicles in the first quarter of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Two dozen rail cars from Montreal are being prepared to join the SEPTA fleet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,13035,2618],"class_list":["post-315889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-regional-rail","tag-septa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}