The MTA’s recent order of 378 R268 cars includes 11 eight-car trains that will be sent to the C line to replace the still-new, 10-car R211 sets that have been running for less than two years.
The inspections follow an urgent safety warning from the National Transportation Safety Board citing an "immediate and unacceptable safety risk" involving the 50-year-old railcars.
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Regional Rail disruptions will continue as SEPTA is granted more time to inspect fire-prone cars
Work was to have been completed Friday but federal regulators gave SEPTA until Nov. 14 to finish the inspections.
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