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Are windows really not a routine line replaceable item? Do they need to wait for a rebuild?

Question prompted by a ride staring out a barely transparent window: Why are the T commuter rail windows so easily damaged by the car wash system?

They drive the pile until it hits “refusal” and trim off the excess. The piles have marks on the sides to document how deep they have been driven.

Pile driving for another structure. There is also a foundation completed further back.

That makes a lot more sense. Standardizing the running gear is good. Sticking with the window and body systems that they know seems less of a concrete good.

Do the GL trains use the same window units or parts as any other equipment?

How much cross-pollination happens between the various fleet maintenance facilities? Each fleet has its own facility and none of the lines share fleets.

What’s the ventilation story? I hope we’re not steering into another Back Bay situation.

Thinking a little more about the maintenance rationale for the window design: Do other transit systems with the more stock Urbos design not suffer from window issues at the same rate as the T? How do they handle the maintenance? Why can’t the T handle newer window systems like the Urbos?

Send it to Seashore to reside with Type 6 mockup.

That was my hunch. I do wish the T was a little more open to less utilitarian fit and finish. I remember talking with someone who worked at one of the bus garages about their fondness for the RTS buses from a maintenance perspective. They could hack together fixes to get a bus back on the road...

Stlin, thanks for the data on the curves. I was thinking more about the styling of the windows and side walls, but my comment was ambiguous. Stylistically, the KC side walls devote more space to the glass, even if some is faked. The glazing is flush with the wall surface. My question to Eng is...

Yeah, someone needs to ask Eng why the stock Urbos 3 doesn’t work for the T.

That facade makes me wish the panels were movable and hooked into the building management system. Watching the panels shift to manage the solar heating would be fun.

The side windows feel smaller than a European tram.

I assume the red markings are whatever is necessary to enable them to run in mixed traffic on the E line.

It’s an improvement over the car wash that was there, but so very blah.

This one is up for Site Plan Approval on 11/7/2024. I haven’t heard anything about tenants, so it’s probably just lining up approvals for the next cycle.

I’ve been commuting through CX relatively frequently, and the fact that buildings A-D are missing really hurts the definition of the place. You pass Lamplighter, going towards the community path, and it feels like you hit the edge of the world in The Thirteenth Floor. Even just building B would...