Style-wise, how about evolving the E-8/E-9 design into the 21st century. EMD has a proud heritage, why not carry it on ?
Style-wise, how about evolving the E-8/E-9 design into the 21st century. EMD has a proud heritage, why not carry it on ?
Style-wise, how about evolving the E-8/E-9 design into the 21st century. EMD has a proud heritage, why not carry it on ?
Vossloh mono…what?
@CHRIS - FRA regulations require American passenger cars be built like tanks, so US trains are absurdly heavy. That said, even the UK’s HST uses two 2,250hp power cars. But yeah, if the trains could be a little lighter…
Why are they built like tanks? Well, because the US runs some very long freight trains. Which isn’t a good reason, since they’re relatively light per car, but it’s enough to make the “experts” think there’s something special about American freight. The same experts will also claim that passenger trains and freight trains don’t use the same lines in Europe, and that there are no heavy freight trains hauling, say, coal, or concrete, in Europe.
It’s bizarre, and very parochial, and my guess would be that if passenger trains were still being run by the US railroads themselves these laws would have been lobbied out of existence by now.
At least it matches the new Talgos in ugliness. Do they offer a nice version for other trains?