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Alfacinha315 wrote: 24 Jun 2021, 20:17With new pantographs?
Old ones actually :D The 5300 series doesn't have them anymore, but they used to have them for at the factory because there was no third rail there. They lack pantograph control though, from what I've heard they were controlled with a rope through the window :D
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brozma wrote: 24 Jun 2021, 18:09
MG2 wrote: 12 Jun 2021, 15:30 Far from finished but getting there...
a MG2 train with panto? :o Well that's something you don't see everyday :!:
It's also based on MG2 but mainly on one of the SL (Stockholm) Cx series: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30389998@N03/44048053670/

The pantograph it uses has the same config as the one that was used for the MG2/1 but also the RET Duwag GT6 / GT8 :)
Michiel wrote: 25 Jun 2021, 05:47
Alfacinha315 wrote: 24 Jun 2021, 20:17With new pantographs?
Old ones actually :D The 5300 series doesn't have them anymore, but they used to have them for at the factory because there was no third rail there. They lack pantograph control though, from what I've heard they were controlled with a rope through the window :D
Here you go, take a good hard look at both the rope and the pantograph ;)
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That's really cool! Will this version... Become available? :mrgreen:

Also, at what factory are the pictures above?
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I see it... I didn't know 5300 had pantographs, I thought it only had 3rd rail, as these trains came from the MG2 (that's why they have that designation, MG2/1).

Thanks for the explanation and the pictures.
Greetings from Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal.
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Two units also maintained their pantograph for testruns in Rotterdam, these 5300s make it all the way to De Tochten. Some other 5300s apparently made it to Schenkel once by accident but were quickly turned around there :D
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That's... Interesting :shock:
Are there any pictures of it? I really want to see what it looks like :D
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I was still a kid when they did those testruns and didn't have a camera yet, I did see them go past my home a few times in the evening. Was 3x5300 but only the outer two had a pantograph. There is a photo taken at De Tochten somewhere out there from one of those testruns.
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Simvilet Metro MG2/1 EMU forms the late evening Simvliet Centraal to Delfsblaak Line C train as it is about to make its <br />stop at Kruidveldlaan on Wednesday 23rd June 2021.
Simvilet Metro MG2/1 EMU forms the late evening Simvliet Centraal to Delfsblaak Line C train as it is about to make its
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MG2 wrote: 25 Jun 2021, 10:36 [Pictures]
Here you go, take a good hard look at both the rope and the pantograph ;)
Got any more of those vintage shots? 8-)
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A single Randstadrail RSG3 on the way to Hageningen CS instead of Strandboulevard, due to track maintenance at Stadhuis station
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