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BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20
OAKLAND, Calif. — Bay Area Rapid Transit, the 131-mile electrified rail network in the San Francisco Bay Area, is offering the public a last chance to ride the 1970s-era futuristic railcars that made up its original fleet. On Saturday, April 20, at 1 p.m. at the MacArthur station in Oakland, BART will commemorate the cars [...]Read More...
Most of the legacy equipment has already been recycled, but BART is donating three cars — one each of the A, B and C versions — to the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction, which is run by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association. Its technology, advanced for the time, included central computer control, on-board electronic propulsion and “the lightest weight car per passenger ever built,” the museum says. The museum runs historic equipment from several electric railroads on about 6 miles of ex-Sacramento Northern track with overhead wire, but can’t operate the BART cars, because of their gauge and need for third-rail power.
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