Buenos Aires: Wooden subway cars retired

[bill937ca]

Nearly 100-year old wooden subway carriages have been retired in Buenos Aires.

 

''The city government in Buenos Aires, Argentina announced earlier this month that the almost 100-year-old ‘La Brugeoise’ wooden carriages of it’s historic subway system will be replaced in a short time by modern Chinese units. The so called last ride of the historic trains took place today, January 11, 2013. The Line A will be closed betwen January 12 and March 8. Line A was the first subway line to work in the southern hemisphere and its trains are among the ten oldest still working daily. The La Brugeoise wagons were constructed between 1912 and 1919 by La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve in Belgium.``

 

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/01/11/argentina-subway-wooden-carriages/#1

 

 

[cteno4]

Pretty old cars, looks like the wood interiors held up well.

 

Jeff

[Nick_Burman]

Pretty old cars, looks like the wood interiors held up well.

 

Jeff

 

More the case of having highly qualified carpenters and woodworkers at the shops...as delivered they looked substantially different from what they are today and had a series of structural faults, which were worked over with the passage of time.

 

Cheers NB

[to2leo]

I rode on those cars two years ago, the ride quality is like those of New Orleans, Hong Kong or Tokyo's older trams.

[cteno4]

Yes i expect a lot of replacing and refining over the years. i was just amazed at how well they kept up wood you saw in the videos, that takes work and glad to see it. getting tired of everything plastic and steel. its breath taking when you enter one of the japanese trains with some wood interior work. its very human.

 

having carpenters slowly evolve the designs to make it work better (and maybe look nicer) is something that you really dont get so much in the CAD age here. once spit out of CAD (yes they now have evolutionary design features etc) they tend to be there it is done... then its the emperor has no clothes if there (and there will be) any design flaws.

 

jeff