MTA Pulls 300 New Subway Cars Out Of Service Due To Door Malfunctions. (New York: credit, home)

[BugsyPal]

Isn't a great day for MTA news wise: https://gothamist.com/news/unspecifi...rs-out-service

[Mr.Retired]

Opinion:
This cracks me up. New York shops around for a great price on trains. They find a Canadian Manufacturer that gives them a good price.
The Canadian Manufacturer finds a good price on the parts he purchases to make the trains coming right from where else but CHINA !
I leave this up to the public to ponder...............


There is an old saying ....If you want something done you got to do it yourself.
Time to bring manufacturing back home to the United States. America is full of
talent. Government... Federal and Local as well as private industry need to lower
their greed bar and return America back to work producing what is has always
been globally accredited for............Quality......Quality.......Quality. .........

[Pope of Greenwich Village]

It’s time to bring back the stickers they used to have on the doors back in the 80s:

NO SE APOYA CONTRA LA PUERTA

I don’t recall seeing it in English but it translates to:

DO NOT LEAN AGAINST THE DOOR

[BOORGONG]

Originally Posted by Mr.Retired

Opinion:
This cracks me up. New York shops around for a great price on trains. They find a Canadian Manufacturer that gives them a good price.
The Canadian Manufacturer finds a good price on the parts he purchases to make the trains coming right from where else but CHINA !
I leave this up to the public to ponder...............


There is an old saying ....If you want something done you got to do it yourself.
Time to bring manufacturing back home to the United States. America is full of
talent. Government... Federal and Local as well as private industry need to lower
their greed bar and return America back to work producing what is has always
been globally accredited for............Quality......Quality.......Quality. .........

The trains were assembled in New York State.

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by BOORGONG

The trains were assembled in New York State.

Not only assembly, they also do testing and quality control at their Plattsburgh, NY facility as well.

[Wells5]

It's too bad that there are no USA manufacturers of subway cars, railroad passenger cars and integrated train sets. Pennsylvania used to have 4 big rail car builders: Budd Co., Philadelphia; American Car and Foundry, Berwick; Pressed Steel Car Company, Pittsburgh and Pullman Standard, Butler.


New York State has assembly operations now for foreign rail passenger car makers Bombardier (Canadian) in Plattsburgh, Alstom (French) in Hornell, and CAF (Spanish) in Elmira. Super Steel of Wisconsin used to assemble equipment for Kawasaki and Kinki Sharyo (both Japanese) in Schenectady but Super Steel no longer does that work.

[under a mountain]

Originally Posted by Wells5

It's too bad that there are no USA manufacturers of subway cars, railroad passenger cars and integrated train sets. Pennsylvania used to have 4 big rail car builders: Budd Co., Philadelphia; American Car and Foundry, Berwick; Pressed Steel Car Company, Pittsburgh and Pullman Standard, Butler.


New York State has assembly operations now for foreign rail passenger car makers Bombardier (Canadian) in Plattsburgh, Alstom (French) in Hornell, and CAF (Spanish) in Elmira. Super Steel of Wisconsin used to assemble equipment for Kawasaki and Kinki Sharyo (both Japanese) in Schenectady but Super Steel no longer does that work.

Does or did Kawasaki make some in Yonkers? I thought I saw that on some of the name plates.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by Pope of Greenwich Village

It’s time to bring back the stickers they used to have on the doors back in the 80s:

NO SE APOYA CONTRA LA PUERTA

I don’t recall seeing it in English but it translates to:

DO NOT LEAN AGAINST THE DOOR

Last time one checked those stickers (in English and Spanish" are still on or near subway doors.

That and part of those GD annoying 'Hello"... messages as in: "Hello, it's dangerous and against the rules to hold open or lean against subway doors...."

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by under a mountain

Does or did Kawasaki make some in Yonkers? I thought I saw that on some of the name plates.

I think his point was that there are no American companies that make the trains. There are plants here, but the companies are not American.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by pierrepont7731

I think his point was that there are no American companies that make the trains. There are plants here, but the companies are not American.

That is what happens when federal and local governments drove private railroad companies out of existence post WWIi.

That being said GE recently sold their transportation division to Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/21/new...tec/index.html

It pretty much is passenger car and locomotive makers that suffered; freight was doing well enough.

North American locomotive and passenger car/freight manufacturers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._United_States