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New rail cars won’t see use on three Metro lines
WASHINGTON — Metro received a record number of shiny new 7000 Series rail cars last month, but riders on the Blue, Orange and Silver lines aren’t seeing any of them.
The new rail cars cannot navigate a steep curve on a stretch of tracks shared by the three lines because the part of the car that draws power from the third rail can raise up by about a quarter of an inch, General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said Thursday. That can lead to the entire train automatically shutting down as apparently happened in the tunnel outside Rosslyn last month.
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