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Amtrak puts out RFP for new and rebuilt locomotives.

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[quote user="longhorn1969"]Why wouldn't they offer it? Metrolink is the gunea pig and Amtrak/other commuter lines are seeing what becomes of it. Stadler has a facility in Utah, so could send some prefab bodies there and complete the work to meet the Buy American statue.[/quote] EMD and Metrolink might be able to debug the F125 but at what cost. According to the schedule in the linked status report the first 17 locomotives should have completed in-service testing by April 2017. As of May 2nd 2018 just 5 locomotives are in-service testing and just 15 are on the property. There seems to be a delay of about 1-1/2 years. I think EMD ends this project with a huge loss. The last time a similar experience with the DM30 led to an absence of the passenger locomotive market till now. The other question is, is Stadler willing to produce the monocoque, cab, and truck frames for EMD for an Amtrak order. Final assembly was done at EMD's Muncie plant. I think Stadler will be too occupied by producing the Caltrain DMUs until 2020s to build monocoques etc. in Utah. Buy American can have some weird consequences beside costs. The steel for the F125 monocoque was produced and cut in the USA, shipped to Spain (sometimes airlifted) and built into the body there and shipped back. Small mistakes can have heavy consequences under these circumstances. [quote user="longhorn1969"]These locomotives are for the LD trains. Looking at it through that prism of trying to keep costs down, doing a rebuild of Genesis with modern guts and AC traction willallow more LD trains to go down to one unit instead two.[/quote] You get perhaps 400 hp more into a Genesis when rebuilding it. That wouldn't reduce locomotive numbers on trains I think. Just allow better HEP supply, better acceleration and higher speeds or one more care. [quote user="longhorn1969"]Though a Charger in phase III will not be the most elegant looking creature.[/quote] The people get used of it. When I think of the reactions when the Genesis was introduced.... Regards, Volker
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