Greg Rudd wrote:
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>>I am are having a discussion with a few guys in an Austalian based mailing
>>list about the Long Island double deck cars that were built in the late
>>1980's Apparently these cars were originally supposed to be built by an
>>Australian company called Comeng with a design based upon the Sydney
>>Interurban multiple unit cars aka "V set" And as a result of the company
>>being asset striped apparently they sold the design to one of the other
>>tenderers and they ended up being made in Japan to the Australian design.
>>These are the cars that I am talking about
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>>Does anyone have any info as to the tendering process and introduction into
>>service of these cars. And how the cars are going now and are they well
>>liked by the passengers.
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I do not know about the tendering process, but these cars did not work out and have been retired. At least some of them are in storage on a short line railroad in Connecticut.
Michael Finfer Bridgewater, NJ