Sentence examples for a six-car train from inspiring English sources

Thursday's incident began about 5 20 a.m. when three cars on a six-car train went off the tracks inside a tunnel between the Smithsonian and Federal Triangle stations as the operator was moving it into position to begin morning service at Smithsonian.

"Zit" was the sound the cart made as the current normally used to move a six-car train at 35 miles an hour passed through the cart's thin metal frame.

A bunch of teenagers hanging out at a switching station in Fair Lawn, N.J., decided it might be fun to throw the switch; a six-car train flew off the rails with such force that it smashed through the walls of an adjoining pasta factory.

The locomotives have a maximum 3000 kW power output and a 240 kN tractive effort, allowing the locomotive to haul a six-car train.

A six-car train is nearly 700 feet long, thus the additional platform space is necessary to accommodate the increased train length for boarding and deboarding passengers.

The locomotives had been designed to haul a six-car train, but NSB regularly needed to haul eight-car trains, and therefore instead used the more powerful El 16.

The motorman, who was himself sickened by the smoke, had to walk through a nine-car train, over and around hundreds of passengers, to reach the rear controls, and then was further delayed by a following train, which had to be moved out of the Borough Hall station to permit his entry.

Alonso had spent the first stint of the race stuck at the back of a three-car train led by Lotus Romain Grosjeann and Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.

The D train used to run on Queens Boulevard, and now it's the M. The D was a ten-car train; the M is an eight-car train.

The substations that power the Green Line's overhead wires can't run anything heavier than a two-car train without the risk of tripping a circuit breaker on the line, shutting down service and stranding thousands of commuters, Cheung said.

The petition calls on city officials to give signal preemption to Expo trains in downtown Los Angeles and "give priority to a three-car train, with maybe 250 people on it, rather than sitting and waiting for vehicle traffic, which carries 1 or 2 persons per car". Their frustration is understandable.