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Looks like Siemens is not able to comply with the specifications. The minutes of the Executive Board meeting of October 24th 2017 contain a document change request (DCR) for a weight change: <a href="http://www.highspeed-rail.org/Documents/305%20Exec%20Brd%20minutes%20-10-24-17%20DRAFT.doc">http://www.highspeed-rail.org/Documents/305%20Exec%20Brd%20minutes%20-10-24-17%20DRAFT.doc</a> Here in Italics a copy from the minutes:   9. Document Management Update – single level car DCRs – Tammy Krause, Amtrak – and the NGEC Revision Control Coordinator (RCC):   Tammy Krause reported that Caltrans has submitted a DCR on weight change and that it has been distributed to the NGEC Technical subcommittee.  Comments have been coming in – some are favorable to the change, and one or two are not.  One person commented that the specs should never be changed, and that is contrary to the intent of the NGEC specifications which are living documents.    Tammy is planning on holding a conference call with Technical subcommittee members to go over the comments received.  Once this is complete she will assemble the comments and ask that Steve Hewitt send them out to all subcommittee members.  It is Tammy’s intent to ask for a vote to consider the DCR on the net Technical subcommittee call – 11-2-17.  From there it goes to the Board and the Review Panel.   Steve Hewitt explained the process, and added that he had heard from Larry Salci, who has agreed and is prepared to conduct the technical review of the change to ensure compliance with the requirements document, and make a recommendation to the Review Panel – which will then convey its recommendation to the Executive Board for its consideration of the DCR.   Larry also confirmed to Steve Hewitt that the review of the DCR for compliance with the requirements document should not happen until the DCR has been approved by the Technical subcommittee.    Steve noted that the Review Panel members and Larry have been provided with the DCR, and will await any further changes and/or approval by the subcommittee before taking action.   That leaves the question if a weight change would heve helped N-S with the bi-level cars? Somewhere in the minutes of Technical Committee a design fault was stated as reason for the buff load test failure. Regards, Volker
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