(The following appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on May 24, 2011.)
PHILADELPHIA — The delivery of SEPTA’s new Silverliner V railcars continues to lag because of production problems, and the manufacturer says the last of the 120 new cars won’t be ready for more than a year.
So far, manufacturer Hyundai Rotem Co. has delivered 19 of the cars, and two more were expected to be delivered Monday.
Twelve of the new Silverliner V cars are operating regularly in SEPTA passenger service, in two six-car trains. Four of the new cars are being tested by SEPTA, and three are being used to train SEPTA crews or are undergoing scheduled maintenance, SEPTA spokeswoman Jerria Williams said Monday.
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