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Old Posted Apr 12, 2012, 8:11 PM
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I don't know why American transit agencies have uniformly rejected such trains while European and Asian agencies have embraced them.

I know in Chicago, 8-car trains are run during the day and then severed into two 4-car trains for nighttime service. CTA's cars are set up in married pairs, though, so odd numbers of cars are not possible. It's always made eminent sense to me to set up the train with flexible connectors to join each married pair.
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