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Sensors and sandbags: SEPTA to conduct stress tests on railcars

More than a dozen men bustled around the elevated railcar, attaching wires and sensors to it like doctors placing monitors on a heart patient.

    by Jason Laughlin, Staff Writer
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SEPTA engineers and Hyundai Rotem consultants discuss getting wires attached to sensors on the equalizer bar under a Silverliner V railcar into the cabin, where they will be hooked up to computers. The sensors measure how the metal flexes.
SEPTA engineers and Hyundai Rotem consultants discuss getting wires attached to sensors on the equalizer bar under a Silverliner V railcar into the cabin, where they will be hooked up to computers. The sensors measure how the metal flexes.Read moreCLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer
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