Abandoned Eurostar 373018 Article and Video Tour

. . . Things to come . . . and it seems strange.

Instead of Baldwin "Babyfaces" and assorted Alcos, U.S. scrapyards will someday -- in our lifetimes -- be cutting up Acela trainsets. 

Interesting that such a faily new train is being scrapped so soon!

Number 90 posted:

. . . Things to come . . . and it seems strange.

Instead of Baldwin "Babyfaces" and assorted Alcos, U.S. scrapyards will someday -- in our lifetimes -- be cutting up Acela trainsets. 

Funny to go to the trolley museum at the East Broad Top in Orbisonia PA and see San Diego Siemens LRVs there!  At the same time that (rebuilt) 1947 PCC trolleys are still running in revenue service a hundred miles east in Philly.

Technology is great, but it's amazing how many times other much older and technologically obsolete equipment will be rebuilt and continue to run.  

Abandoned? Many of the Eurostars are going to be scrapped:

The trains are too long and draw way too much power to be used anywhere else in the UK or in continental Europe. Because they're narrower than trains in the EU (restricted loading gauge in the UK) their usefulness even absent the other problems is limited, and the trains are proving to be a maintenance headache. Only about a half dozen of the least-troublesome trainsets are being refurbished, the rest are being replaced by new trains and are thus redundant and unwanted.

---PCJ

Chris Lord posted:

Below is a link to some videos of the abandoned Eurostar 373018 train set

There's Something Incredibly Creepy About An Abandoned High-Speed Train

Sorry, I can't get worked up over these ugly things or the Acela trains or pretty much any other passenger equipment being built today.

None of them even look like trains to me. 

Had I been growing up now I doubt I would have ever become a railfan.

Thank God I got to ride behind handsome locomotives like the GG1, the FL9,  E7s E8s and E9s. Passenger trains were dead to me after they were retired.