n012944 conrailman New Cars are better to maintain than 35 years old cars. They don't make the parts anymore for old cars. Its amazing what one can do with a good machine shop and a fleet of cars to take parts off of. Since certain posters like to make comparisons between aircraft fleets and railcar fleets, well.... http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/delta-buys-sas-md-80s-parts
conrailman New Cars are better to maintain than 35 years old cars. They don't make the parts anymore for old cars.
New Cars are better to maintain than 35 years old cars. They don't make the parts anymore for old cars.
Its amazing what one can do with a good machine shop and a fleet of cars to take parts off of.
Since certain posters like to make comparisons between aircraft fleets and railcar fleets, well....
http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/delta-buys-sas-md-80s-parts
That Why Amtrak got rid of AEM-7 Engines on NEC , because they don't make parts for that engine anymore.
Plus, Amtrak's Beach Grove is known more for Passenger Car bastardization (specifically mentioned was improper welding, band-aids vs perm repair to cracks, etc) then properly fixing a passenger car.......at least that is what the Private Passenger Car Owners say and I don't know a single one that uses Beach Grove for contractual repairs. A number of those IP Cars were formerly maintained by Beach Grove.
Agreed I would prefer newer equipment than riding on those older cars.
When Amtrak gets a good bill from Congress or Trump. Amtrak should place big order of Superliners cars and more Viewliners, New LD engines, New Cars for NEC too. Amtrak needs to think Big not small like they was think for years.
So, this is a zombie thread....
But, we all speculated a lot 2-1/2 years ago. What'd we get right? What'd we get wrong?
New locos? Yes.
New corridor equipment? In progress.
New LD equipment? Not yet.
Routes? Anderson says 5-10 LD routes as "exeriential" trains ala Canadian.
Service: New interiors, revamped cafe car menus.
LD food: still a hot potato. Or a cold potato. Or a flash frozen convection oven heated potato.
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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