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the 100-series cars (which i name that because it's the car numbers that are 100-199) are the original cars link started with from when it opened in 2009, manufactured by kinki sharyo; the 200- and 300-series (so far) cars are being manufactured by siemens.

the most noticeable things about the siemens cars are:

• LEDs in the door windows (for... some reason?)
• all of the windows have square corners when viewed from the outside (the kinki sharyo cars have rounded corners)
• wider aisle in the center section with more seats
• multi-color exterior destination signs (to indicate the route color)
• full-color interior displays for next stop display

i am not sure how they got all the 100-series cars over to eastside with the faulty plinths on the I-90 bridge, i sort of assumed they would directly deliver new siemens S700 cars to the eastside maintenance facility? maybe they trucked them over. but this partially explains why i have hardly seen any kinki sharyo cars in seattle anymore