(The following appeared on the News Times website on April 28, 2011.)
STAMFORD, Conn. — Metro-North Railroad is investigating how a brake pad locked and flattened the wheel of one of Metro-North Railroad’s new M-8 cars during a late-night run Wednesday morning between Grand Central Terminal and New Haven, railroad spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said.
The car and its matching pair were diverted to the Stamford Rail Maintenance Facility to be inspected and to review on-board computer logs on the trip and previous runs to identify what caused the malfunction, Anders said.
The railroad has 20 of the new M-8 cars in service that it ordered from Kawasaki Rail Car, and has ordered 380 of the cars which are expected to be delivered 10 to 12 cars at a time into 2013 at a cost of $866 million.
The two cars remained out of service Thursday, she said.
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