Ironic. These cars have nice big windows to view the passing scenery... and will be used in the mostly industrialized Northeast!
Landsteiner posted:These are being built in the Finger Lakes town of Hornell at Alstom. Pretty much the middle of nowhere
. So much for (1) no manufacturing is going on in the USA and (2) New York State is so business unfriendly that nothing happens there. Sometimes reality departs from the fiction people prefer to believe in.
The reason these are built in NY state or in the US is with contracts like this they usually have stipulation they are in some way made here. When the MTA buys new subway or metro north gear, they are built relatively locally (used to be a plant in Yonkers,not sure if they use it), and Alstom already had been making equipment in NY. I suspect a lot of the parts are made overseas, then assembled here. If this had been a private entity it could be this stuff would be made totally overseas, no way to totally know, but with public contracts they often have provisos that the stuff be made locally.
WITZ 41 posted:Very cool.
Hopefully Amtrak measured lateral rail clearances for the tilt technology if using existing lines. I seem to recall a British experience with that not clearing another passing train and ending badly.
I purchased the Hornby APT train set 00 gauge
Thanks for posting. It is a nicely done video. I was interested in the brief mention in the video of the "modular" cars. There was an animation and it looked like a car was being dropped in to the consist from above. Does anyone know what was meant by that? I mean aren't all cars modular??
And, I don't see a sneaker in the engine design, but the front end sure looks like a snake to me.
Hope the food's decent!
TRRR
TomlinsonRunRR posted:Thanks for posting. It is a nicely done video. I was interested in the brief mention in the video of the "modular" cars. There was an animation and it looked like a car was being dropped in to the consist from above. Does anyone know what was meant by that? I mean aren't all cars modular??
And, I don't see a sneaker in the engine design, but the front end sure looks like a snake to me.
Hope the food's decent!
TRRR
Probably means that the Avelia train, being a more or less off-the-shelf design, can be more easily lengthened than the Acela, which was mostly a custom build.
(speculation mine)
---PCJ
