7000 Series now has 6 car trains some still have 8. They have 6 cars because they’re replacing the 3000 Series and the older cars off the system, due to the 8000 Series coming.
@@JaxBrubaker-po8ld yah the 7ks and 6ks typically run as 8 cars while the older 3ks run 6 cars (and 1ks, 2ks, 4ks and 5ks did 6 cars too before their respective retirements)
I love my dc metro I really do but the 6k series is so so so ugly. Everything about it is terrible even though it shares 95% with the 3k the 5% ruins them.
I wouldn’t say they’re ugly but they’re the worst looking trains in the DC metro. Even the 7ks look better lol. The cab windows on the front with the thick rounded black borders look really weird. Maybe if they extended all the way to the top of the bulkhead frame or least had thinner borders it wouldn’t look so bad. 2k/3k, 4ks, and 5ks all looked really good though.
@@ethanparker7900 5ks were way better in my opinion. The shiny, boxy aluminum frames on the cab windows was amazing. It usually looked bad tho since it was always chipped or peeling
@@RohrDC the 5ks certianly were cool and i miss them a lot but at the same time i can understand why they were retired early and that a lot of safety issues were out there that just couldn't be fixed. It obviously sucked cause they were not even 20 years old when they retired. The 6ks were very similar by appearance but ofc their reliability record was a thousand times better and it is tough that the 5ks didn't have the reliability or longevity the 6ks have always had despite similar physical appearances
7000 Series now has 6 car trains some still have 8. They have 6 cars because they’re replacing the 3000 Series and the older cars off the system, due to the 8000 Series coming.
Yeah I seen some on the green line the other day it was weird.
Yeah, it’s because they’re replacing the older cars off the fleet.
@@JaxBrubaker-po8ld I wonder why WMATA didn't try running 6 car 7000 series trains earlier
Don’t know they were always 8 car trains since they started
@@JaxBrubaker-po8ld yah the 7ks and 6ks typically run as 8 cars while the older 3ks run 6 cars (and 1ks, 2ks, 4ks and 5ks did 6 cars too before their respective retirements)
I can tell that some of these videos are over a year old, because the last one has carpeted 2k series cars.
Definitely not over a year but they are old. August 2023.
I love my dc metro I really do but the 6k series is so so so ugly. Everything about it is terrible even though it shares 95% with the 3k the 5% ruins them.
I wouldn’t say they’re ugly but they’re the worst looking trains in the DC metro. Even the 7ks look better lol.
The cab windows on the front with the thick rounded black borders look really weird. Maybe if they extended all the way to the top of the bulkhead frame or least had thinner borders it wouldn’t look so bad. 2k/3k, 4ks, and 5ks all looked really good though.
@@RohrDC the 6ks have a very similar appearance to the retired 5ks
@@ethanparker7900 5ks were way better in my opinion. The shiny, boxy aluminum frames on the cab windows was amazing. It usually looked bad tho since it was always chipped or peeling
@@RohrDC the 5ks certianly were cool and i miss them a lot but at the same time i can understand why they were retired early and that a lot of safety issues were out there that just couldn't be fixed. It obviously sucked cause they were not even 20 years old when they retired. The 6ks were very similar by appearance but ofc their reliability record was a thousand times better and it is tough that the 5ks didn't have the reliability or longevity the 6ks have always had despite similar physical appearances
@@ethanparker7900 I miss em