Kovalchick (of EBT fame) bought over half a million's worth of these in April 2012.
Nothing to see here. A 40 year old vehicle, that has a piece of electrical equipment that has a 'normal' six year life span, that they have used for double the 'normal' life span - at present. An I expect that the manufacturer has been either out of business and/or producing other products and have no 'assembly line' currently working on the parts needed. Duh! Duh! Duh!
Less that $50K per part sounds like a steal to keep a piece of tranportation equipment operating for another 2 to 4 years.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
NJ transit is having to order special parts for their Arrow -3s. Possibility of failure on a part with 6 year life that are on cars for 12 years. Another problem not fixed 6 years ago. Anyone know how actually this part is supposed to work ?
https://www.nj.com/traffic/2020/02/nj-transits-getting-new-rail-cars-but-first-it-has-to-spend-3m-to-fix-the-old-ones.html
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