On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:40:35PM -0400, Bob Rice wrote:
> We in USA could do better in this dept. Archaic constructins standards
> in USA have made Acela twice as heavy as the Swedish demo train we had here
> a few years ago. Amtrak had to get a FRA waiver to run it here. We just
> couldn't legally go and buy a big box of ready-to-run Swedish trainsets, and
> plug an' play. Joke at Amtrak: We can't have THESE, they work too WELL!
Speaking of locomotives, I see that yesterday Bombardier announced a new
locomotive using a Pratt&Whitney jet instead of a diesel to power the
thing. I assume it's still powering a generator...
I hope it works better than the GE gas turbine loco from the 50's did...
As I recall, it came into Los Angeles once and was so noisy they never
let it back in.
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