Don,
Your headline has it exactly right, cracked open. If the performance standards become de facto what the present engineering standard provides, then will not be much progress in lightening equipment.
Mac
Another positive step forward:
http://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/details/L04638
Might even reduce the cost of the trainsets.....
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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