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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Given that railroads have cost reduction as one of the higher priorities, it would appear that the answer to your question is "yes". [/quote] Cost reduction!?!?! If cost reduction was a high priority, we wouldn't even be discussing HAL. HAL raises costs, both in terms of needing costlier rail and rail components, and in terms of increased maintenance. I made the point before that should be obviously to everyone - it would have been less costly to make the upgrades to tri-axle bogies than it is to make the upgrades to the rails, because the rails cover what 50 - 60,000 miles worth of material (and how many tons worth of steel?), while all the new railcars, whether the new "improved" HAL railcars or the proposed tri-axle bogey cars, put end to end might amount to a few hundred miles of material at most. Nope, if cost reduction was paramount, it would have been better to spend "new" money on the spread axle concept for all new heavy load railcars than it is to spend it on replacing miles and miles of track (not to mention the loss of shortline and branchline business due to these incomprehensible HAL's).
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