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Davekelpper, Good points but every thing I've read on those AEM-7 s is that they follow a Swedish design. They can be built anywhere as long as the builder can follow plans. My point was that the Acela project was designed and built in the US by groups that had no experience designing the types of systems used. They had to learn everything. It became a porkbarrel project. They could have taken a design proven somewhere else at their expence off the shelf and plugged it in to fitt the bill. They could have designed two new designs in the time it has taken to fix this flawed one. They esentially have. One that works and one that didn't. They just have been built on the same frame. If new systems have "teething periods" why not chose a design that has aready made it though that on someone elses dime. (I have a 5 month old that was up at 3 last night. I know all about teething periods.) I have a hard time understanding your Poughkeespie Bridge point. Last I looked that was far north of the city and goes over the Hudson River leading to the west bank. Now the train is in the Catskills how will it get to NYC from there? Do you advocate avoiding NYC suburbs at the expence of not stopping there at all? I do believe about half the people on the train have that as their destination or starting point. The rest of this post is a rant that makes little sence. Read on if you want. It is ironic that the reason that the trains are so popular in this NEC area over others is the same reason they are so slow. Population density. You actually (gasp) do not need a car if you live in these areas.The people lived here before the trains came, unlike some areas out west. It is also ironic that in the recent period that they were knocking old buildings down with abandon, the 1960's, the railroads were not doing so hot. For examples of this look at New Haven. Where are the old buildings. They ran out of money to build the new buildings after they knocked the old ones down. Good thing people who could at this time were moving to the suburbs. They cities were trying to become like the suburbs. The interstate highways were being built at this time under the ruse of being for military use because the government can't build roads like this. I can't remember the last time I saw a military convoy that needed 8 lanes across. These roads were built parallel to the rail routes and claimed though eminent domain laws the highway ROW. The railroads can't do this now for various reasons (cost, politics, disruption).
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