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On 7/2/2012 at 11:57 PM, sw4400 said:

Purple Line:(Updated 12/21/18)

2600-Series Cars(Budd Company/Transit America 1981-1987)

No Cars assigned to this Line

3200-Series Cars(Morrison-Knudsen 1991-1994)

No Cars assigned to this Line

5000-Series Cars(Bombardier Transit Corporation 2009-2015)

(100 Cars Total)

5401-5500

7000-Series Cars(CSR Sifang America JV 2020-2023)

Prototype Planned To Be Delivered In 2020

Purple Line equipment occasionally used on Red and Yellow Lines, and early weekday mornings for Ravenston runs on the Brown Line

Purple Line has been receiving random 5000's that are from the Red Line

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Not all cars assigned or delivered yet. Assignments may vary....

2009 Bombardier Rail Cars.jpg

 

 

 

Ravenston doesn't operate any more. 

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On 8/29/2020 at 1:17 PM, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

3429-3430 are on blue 

Slowly but surely, within a matter of months enough 3200s will be assigned to the Blue Line to cover base service on that line, while 2600s are to be used as ridership warrants (usually during the daytime and early evening hours).

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2 hours ago, Sam92 said:

To be honest all garages should be doing that as actively as possible if they have old equipment. I still content that that’s why all the novas got sent to FG with them only having Milwaukee as a route that racks up deadmilage. They seem to be being more careful with keeping new equipment on the heavy lines similar to how the 5000s are pretty much where they are needed. Blue just needs a rebuild to handle new cars otherwise the 5000s could’ve easily gone to Blue, Brown, Orange and pink; all 3200s on the red with the 2600s staying on the green, purple and yellow. 

I winder why the brown didnt get the 5000 cars in surprised they didnt

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8 hours ago, Sam92 said:

To be honest all garages should be doing that as actively as possible if they have old equipment. I still content that that’s why all the novas got sent to FG with them only having Milwaukee as a route that racks up deadmilage. They seem to be being more careful with keeping new equipment on the heavy lines similar to how the 5000s are pretty much where they are needed. Blue just needs a rebuild to handle new cars otherwise the 5000s could’ve easily gone to Blue, Brown, Orange and pink; all 3200s on the red with the 2600s staying on the green, purple and yellow. 

you’ll also catch 1000’s on the 56 nowadays maybe like 3-4 out of all the buses that are on the 56 all day but what really questions me is why didn’t brown and orange get the 5000’s cuz ik they could handle them easily but they might get the newer equipment 7000’s

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16 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1051 said:

you’ll also catch 1000’s on the 56 nowadays maybe like 3-4 out of all the buses that are on the 56 all day but what really questions me is why didn’t brown and orange get the 5000’s cuz ik they could handle them easily but they might get the newer equipment 7000’s

Because Howard went universal with equipment, meaning red (374 cars needed), yellow( 10) and purple (100) use 484 cars leaving 230. Brown and orange use 178 and 188 which means you are short 80 cars and since they wanted lines fully converted that left the pink and green as the only lines that can take them. Now you could say they had enough left to convert either the orange or brown fully but why give 2 lines that always had the newer equipment (one of which is relatively light) while green and pink had 2600s and 2400s? Even if the blue was able to run 5000s and they had them instead of the red line, they use 400 cars and after which if you send them to orange or brown you would only have enough to put them on green pink OR purple and they would only be able to choose green at that point due to them wanting Howard using an interchangeable fleet. So by using the current set up you only have 3 lines running old equipment compared to anything else you’d probably have 4-5 using old equipment sense Howard wouldn’t only assign 5000s to one line 

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