https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9ZC-jmojM
Looks like they spent some money on a streamlined nose. Wonder if Amtrak notices?
This happened almost a month ago…
FWIW, I don’t think that either nose looks very good. I certainly hope that Brightline has a front coupler somewhere in those units…
All I can think is:
There’s this, too, for the coming late-boomer vibe
Like the large windows and stainless steel of the Austrailian XPT, they need to spend some money on better train horns though…if those horns were used here it might nudge more than a few railfans just over the cusp of insanity. We wouldn’t want that to happen.[:D]
Looking at the rear of the locomotive, it appears that there is no american style AAR coupler. I wonder if this means that the trains will be semipermanently coupled.
On the XPT the horn is more of a British sound that the traditional North American type.
Yes if Amtrak really wanted to have a HST derivative back in the day ,Budd would have been in the box seat to build it. As the XPT passenger cars had to be signed off by Budd, as Comeng used Budd technologies and construction methods under licence.
More to the point I think Amtrak got cold feet on the HST/XPT concept after trialing the LRC which was in a way a competing design against the HST/XPT.
There were several EMD proposals for HST style trainsets proposed that we have discussed in the past, but none garnered orders or came to fruition.
I saw that as well, I think it is based on a German Design and they might not have fitted one yet. Because it seems to have a large gaping square pocket for it. We will have to wait and see. It could also be a design decision to omit between cars. On the front of the locomotive it looks like the facia swings up or apart where the coupler should be but I do not see a release lever. I only see the seams. Could it be the release lever is underneath?
Yes.