From: jgrove24@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:10:10 AM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 1:56:49 AM UTC-4, Glen Labah wrote:   
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   > > Tearing into an existing car that has been retired and using it as a    
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   > > demonstrator car to prove the system could result in a prototype car    
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   > > much faster than starting from scratch.   
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   > It would seem that way.  However, the PATCO rebuild program--where its 45   
   year old Budd cars were sent out to be completely rebuilt--is a disaster,   
   taking far, far longer than anticipated.  (I don't know the reason, and   
   apparently they haven't given    
   any.)   
      
   Given the snowbelt salt usuage, I'm guessing rusting issues in hidden areas.   
      
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