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Re: PHOTOS: Acela II at Penn Coach Yard Thursday |
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Posted by Jace on Mon Sep 20 21:03:52 2021, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Acela II at Penn Coach Yard Thursday, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Sep 20 15:21:23 2021. You misunderstood; I'm not comparing an Acela style car to a car with a standard center sill car. Acela style carshells are going to be heavier with a step well then without. With a well, you have to add structure to move the load from the outside of the car, around the well and then back to the side sill all in a very restricted space. Center doors will help but you still have to add structure. It's much, much easier, and lighter, to run a tube end to end.Politics of course played a role as with any other high dollar federally funded project but not to the extent that you might think. The commercial factors are what really led to the new Acelas. Two very important facts: at the time the order was being discussed, Amtrak was seeing high demand for certain Acela trains with some consistently running at or close to capacity. Remember, Acela is a 'high profit' operation for Amtrak. Secondly, the original trains were built by a Bombardier-Alstom joint-venture with each of the two companies responsible for different aspects of the design and different parts on the trains. This joint-venture did not go well for all involved and dissolved after the trains were built. Solving the problem (fact 1) should have been straight-forward had it not been for fact 2. |
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