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Posted by WillD on Wed Mar 21 02:30:22 2012, in response to Re: PHOTOS: CALTRAN CALTRAIN IV, posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Mar 20 09:51:22 2012. How will it be more comfortable to need to use the bathroom and be unable to walk the full length of the train to find the one that doesn't smell like ass?Last time I checked this was Caltrain we were talking about, not NJT and the MMC. It certainly seemed they were perfectly capable of actually emptying the toilet regularly so as to prevent Eau du Arrow. How will it be more comfortable to travel in lightweight rolling stock that has the ride characteristics of a wheelie bin? I've ridden UIC stock on some of the DB RB lines which made our tracks look downright good. I can honestly say I noticed no appreciable difference between their Bombardier push pull on a main line and our Bombardier push pull on a similar route. Maybe you just need to go back to Europe, because your anecdotal evidence of inferior ride quality seems either erroneous or outdated. Oh wait, you're assuming that Caltrain will be maintaining its track to German standards. They already do maintain their track to German standards. Hell, you probably could run an ICE 3 down those tracks without any appreciable change in ride quality over an NBS. Go talk to the folks at AREMA and they'll probably tell you that if you're doing concrete ties with heavy weight cars you'd damn well better dial in the alignment of the rails properly because every bump, jostle, or bounce of the cars above them will reduce the life of those ties. Sure, they'e made gains in isolating the rail's vibration from the concrete below, but you can still bet they're aligning the rails with the utmost precision before turning them over to freight trains. The Superliners tried to get away with fancy panty German trucks, but when the second order came around Amtrak decided to go back to good old General Steel Castings. Pretty sure I read that had more to do more with availability and bid prices than anything else. After all, the Superliners are still rolling around on those original German trucks. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for your erroneous theories of 'flimsy' European equipment. |
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