Thanks, trent, for the update! As noted on Regional Geographic, the Q Train of the Future is upon us: “It was bright and had a red LED on front of it. At first I thought it was a misplaced 6 train, but then it came closer.”
“… I looked inside and things were still shrink-wrapped; there were Print Shop Pro signs that said ‘Test Train – not in service.’ Inside was like you would expect. Not the L style with the barely-informative 3-color LED panels but the normal 4,5,6 kind with the regularly informative one-color strips and lighted maps.”
“There were other fantastic things on the train. The first couple of cars had flatscreen CRTs that had screen savers, scrolling [Windows] 95-style, that said ‘SUPER.’ And boy were they, because they had an octopus worth of cables going in and out of their boxes…”
Read more at Regional Geographic
UPDATE: Comments on the new Q Train on the Prospect Heights Message Board