M-NR/Conn DOT

[BNSFwatcher]

I heard that the new C-8s have started to arrive from Korea.  Too bad we can't build them at home, but... (insert the "U-word" here) guess it is not to be.  Are any in service yet?  Would appreciate a review.  BTW, CTC on the Danbury branch?  Wow!

Hays  --  +/- 2000 miles away in "Shelberia".

[BNSFwatcher]

I think I got that wrong.  I should have said "M-8" cars, no?  BTW, doesn't Kawasaki have an assembly plant on the old Otis Elevator Co. site in Yonkers?  Gummint, buying railcars built there, would provide some employment for the locals, methinks.

Hays 

[DMUinCT]

BNSFwatcher

I think I got that wrong.  I should have said "M-8" cars, no?  BTW, doesn't Kawasaki have an assembly plant on the old Otis Elevator Co. site in Yonkers?  Gummint, buying railcars built there, would provide some employment for the locals, methinks.

Hays 

Your right, the "car bodies" go through the Panama Canal, up to be unloaded in Baltimore, then on to Yonker for final assembly.   Kawasaki is building a new car body factory out west so all "rail car" production can be American Made and bid as such.    Check the Kawasaki Heavy Industry web page.

 

[Dutchrailnut]

With the M-8's only 8 cars were supose to have been built in Japan, the prototype cars  9100-9107.

 the cars are delayed however and now a second set of 36 cars will be built in Japan.

 the rest of 360 car order will be totaly constructed in Lincoln Nebraska, at Kawasaki.

 currently two pair are in New Haven cars 9102-9103 and 9104-9105.

 9100-9101 are still in Japan, 9106-9107 are oon boat about to be delivered to Baltimore.

[BNSFwatcher]

Lincoln, Nebraska???  Wow!  Poor old Yonkers can't get a break!  They can't even deliver the cars to Oak Island, Port Morris, or Brooklyn, NY, let alone New Haven, CT..  I wonder why.  Governors, Senators, and Representatives:  what say?

Hays

[narig01]

BNSFwatcher

Lincoln, Nebraska???  Wow!  Poor old Yonkers can't get a break!  They can't even deliver the cars to Oak Island, Port Morris, or Brooklyn, NY, let alone New Haven, CT..  I wonder why.  Governors, Senators, and Representatives:  what say?

Hays

Why can't they deliver to the above places.   All it takes is a truck and highway.

Rgds IGN

[Dutchrailnut]

Yonkers does nor manufacture railcars, they just assemble them, with car bodies and parts from other plants

Lincoln Nebr. will do entire game..

The Yonkers plant will handle the warranty work, but they are still working on Subway cars and for quite a ways to go.