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Re: Amtrak Announces Order for complete replacement of 20 Acela Express trainsets |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Dec 14 22:22:31 2012, in response to Re: Amtrak Announces Order for complete replacement of 20 Acela Express trainsets, posted by 3-9 on Fri Dec 14 22:19:51 2012. Retiring them at age 20 says "no". Not having steps and trapdoors obviously makes them more difficult to redeploy. And I wonder why BBD tried to push a gas-turbine "JetTrain" instead of building a diesel power car (which can get up to 140 mph or faster what with modern technology and all)? |
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