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A Comet III cab car on the end of a NJT train at Princeton Junction. The Comet III cars, ordered by NJ Transit in 1990, feature center doors and long end-doors, permitting end doors to open and close with traps open. The Metro-North Shoreliner III fleet is a variation without long doors. The Comet III fleet was removed from revenue service ...
The Community of Metros Benchmarking Group (COMET), formerly CoMET and Nova groups, is a multinational collection of metro systems focusing on international benchmarking, facilitated by the Transport Strategy Centre (TSC) at Imperial College London. The Community of Metros consist of 42 metro systems in 39 cities around the world.
A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor. [1] A motor controller might include a manual or automatic means for starting and stopping the motor, selecting forward or reverse rotation, selecting and regulating the speed, regulating or limiting the torque, and protecting against overloads and electrical ...
Thirty cars were converted in 1987–88 into the Comet IB cab control cars and trailer coaches by Morrison-Knudsen at the Hornell, New York shop. [2] Three Arrow Is, 519, 521 and 523, were heavily damaged by arson, and were salvaged for use in the Comet IB program before being scrapped.
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The same engine was later offered as MDC 2 C (Comet II system) and MDC 3 C (Comet III). At the same Salon, Berliet also presented the GDR 7 (MDBR engine). This new chassis was offered in two lengths: normal (10.8 tonnes GVW) and long (11 tonnes GVW). The GDR 7 would become the most popular civil model of the GD series before World War II. [23]
Each car had 400 HP with four Westinghouse 1453-A motors and an XC-548D cam control group. The MP75s were ordered in part for expanded service to the 1964 World's Fair and were sometimes known as the "World's Fair Cars", but their superior performance compared with the aging MP54s and even more recent MP72 and MP70 cars lead them to be ...
"Sesame Street" has been gentrified. After 45 seasons, the brick walls that once fenced in the neighborhood have been razed, giving way to sweeping views of what looks suspiciously like the Brooklyn Bridge (it is in fact a composite of three New York City bridges).