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Metrolink news not related to last year's disaster at Chatsworth, but a direct result of another fatal wreck at Glendale years earlier.

Metrolink to get updated rail cars

"Two of the new-generation cars, the first of their kind in the nation, are to be unloaded from a ship in the Port of Long Beach in mid-January and will be put into service as early as next summer, agency officials said in a news conference at a Metrolink maintenance yard northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

"The cars, which are arriving several months behind schedule, have energy-absorbing ends designed to distribute the force of train-on-train collisions. Other features include breakaway interior tables."

EDIT: The photo that accompanies the story includes a locomotive sporting Metrolink's new paint scheme and logo. In the wake of the head-on collision at Chatsworth I've often thought the old (current) logo is pretty unfortunate:

This post has been edited by WhoozOn1st: 18 December 2009 - 11:37 AM