Veteran Railroaders Question Amfleet Safety

[Travel Hat]

1. In a month I'll be on the Canadian going from Toronto to Vancouver. They also use Budds

The Budds they use where built in 1955, so they are even older.

At the end of last year they took some rolling stock out of service to do maintenance and found a few of them where developing cracks in the frames. so now at the end of the train instead of the iconic Park cars at the end they have 2 extra cars added on for safety. This is to prevent the cars from accordion-ing if they have a failure.

VIA, the Canadian rail service, is saying they may have to take these trains out of service in 2 years.

This was form an article I read a few months ago.