Metro Pulling 60% of Train Cars from Service After Defect Found Following Blue Line Derailment

[Mtatransit]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/all-metro-trains-to-run-about-every-30-minutes-as-wmata-investigates-blue-line-derailment/2835776/

 

Train will run every 30 minutes on all branches and all trains will be 6 cars long. 

Edited October 18, 2021 by Mtatransit

[Lex]

You should see the Twitter replies to WMATA's announcement.

[R10 2952]

They get what they pay for, I guess.  When corners are cut, there are certain effects.

If anything, this would actually vindicate the practice agencies had back in the day of splitting up orders into multiple contracts, with different manufacturers.  Placing a large order with one manufacturer is essentially putting all your eggs in one basket. 

Edited October 20, 2021 by R10 2952

[XcelsiorBoii4888]

The WMATA 7000 series trains are now slowly returning to service. A few set or two is in service now. Apparently the cars will now be checked every week instead of every 3 months. 

[DCTransitFilms]

Also forgot to mention on here, only 336 cars are going into service before the rest returns. This gonna lead our 2000 series and some 3000 series back into storage however. More 7000 series are returning by the day however.

Edited December 22, 2021 by DCTransitFilms

[DCTransitFilms]

Another update: WMATA announced they will suspend returning additional 7000-series railcars to service.

https://www.wmata.com/about/news/Metro-Pauses-7000-series-railcar-ramp-up.cfm

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Metro’s General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Paul J. Wiedefeld today paused the return of additional 7000-series railcars to passenger service, ordering a new regime of daily 7000-series inspections.

Although there are no new issues of concern, the Chief Safety Officer and Chief Operating Officer met with the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (the independent consultant Metro hired to help with its root cause analysis following the derailment) and Metro officials concluded in an abundance of caution that moving to a nightly inspection of 7000-series railcars is the prudent course of action.

Metro notified National Transportation Safety Board and Washington Metrorail Safety Commission this afternoon of the updates to its 7000-series restoration plan.

“While I recognize the pause is unexpected, we are going to continuously evaluate data we are collecting to ensure that we are enhancing safety,” Wiedefeld said. “I feel that requiring a daily inspection is the safest course until we know more and our experts have an opportunity to review the data we are collecting with the few trainsets now in operation.”

 

[R10 2952]

Sell them the R32s LMAO...

Edited December 24, 2021 by R10 2952