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Posted by Jace on Sun Jul 6 12:41:38 2014, in response to Re: Amtrak seeks 28 next-gen HSR trainsets, posted by WillD on Sat Jul 5 18:45:42 2014. I know you don't like Tier II but it's not the whipping boy here. The trains could have easily been longer when built, there's power to spare. Why they weren't is still somewhat of a mystery to me, but I know it was considered.As I stated elsewhere, a couple of years ago they went out to buy more coaches for the trains but got way too high a price to justify the purchase. The price (which is not the same as cost to a carbuilder) was too high not due to anything technical but rather solely to commercial issues keeping in mind that this was a joint venture. They could theoretically take the existing 20 trains and reconfigure them into fewer longer trains but they'd still need to add new trains to fill out the fleet. Having a mixed but still relatively small fleet like this probably won't make sense. If the Acelas do have a short life, and this is by no means certain yet, then it has much more to do with their lack of flexibility. A Tier III trainset of the same capacity and general characteristics (weight excluded) would face the exact same issues. |
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