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Re: Amtrak Cancels Order for additional 40 Acela Express coach cars |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Dec 8 07:57:37 2012, in response to Amtrak Cancels Order for additional 40 Acela Express coach cars, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 7 18:01:52 2012. The 40 additional cars would have been a foolish expenditure. It is a shame that Amtrak's mgmt is so incompetent that it took their I.G. to whack them over the head for them to get it.Simply put, Acela is at half life. Bombardier would have taken them to the cleaners for these cars, and they all will be scrapped in 15 years since the 40 cars would have been orphaned and totally incompatible with a Tier III/Acela II. Better investment would have been to invest in 40 Next-Gen Amfleet replacement prototypes, or even Viewliner coaches, to NEC Business Class, and release 40 Business Class Amfleet-1 cars to add capacity to long distance trains to improve their farebox recovery and/or Chicago corridors to put the Horizon cars out of their misery sooner. |
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