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Talks Underway for New Trains

Metro has unveiled designs for a new generation of rail cars to join its fleet. Although it would be at least five years before the new series would be put into service, talks have begun about the proposal.

Metro has unveiled designs for a new generation of rail cars to join its fleet. Although it would be at least five years before the new series would be put into service, talks have begun about the proposal.
SOURCE: 7000 Series rail car report, Metro | GRAPHIC: By April Umminger and Todd Lindeman, The Washington Post - January 11, 2008

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Article | With shiny, stainless-steel exteriors, ergonomic seats and interactive, high-tech maps, the next generation of Metro trains could look and feel dramatically different from those of the past 40 years and represent a fundamental shift in the way the nation's second-busiest subway system operates it...
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