(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 2016)
PHILADELPHIA — Structural failures found in a third of SEPTA’s train fleet are forcing more than 100 cars off the tracks indefinitely. The flaw, a crack in a weight-bearing beam on a train car’s undercarriage, has shown up in almost all of SEPTA’s Silverliner V’s, the newest trains in its Regional Rail fleet. The agency spent $274 million on them and they were put in service from 2010 to 2013.
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