Afternoon!
So I’ve been working on something over the summer regarding the Norwalk Locomotive Works (My Fantasy Builder), and well, I created something that the name may need tinkering too, but I call it the NLW ElectroLiner High Speed Rail Trainset
I drew out some things for it, like Power Cars and Coaches, still more to go!
The diner car is supposed to have a Literal diner-style layout like the diners seen in movies, with counter seating and booths, and my handwriting isn’t the best! Sorry! 
Still, I hope you like the drawings 
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to list off the specs for the power cars (by factory default):
Red Mars Light (High/Cab Mounted)
Dual K5LA (2nd Gen)
Dual Ditchlights
Dual Headlights
Dual Marker/Class Lights
LED Lighting
Graham White E-Bell (Type-2 Gen 1)
Catenary, Third Rail and Battery Powered
Batteries charge when Dual Mode Capabilities are being used like Third Rail or Catenary Mode to Charge the Batteries to power the locomotive off of the Third Rail or Catenary Modes
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Your car wheels are wrong. Even if you adapt Wickens suspension the wheels would be in closer to the quarter points, and the thing would guide strangely at speeds not far over 100mph.
You might then adapt the Talgo style steering, where stub axles are used at the rear of each car and the front pivots on the rear of the preceding car. That gives you ELF all the way through the train, which is convenient for ADA access, but you give up the self-steering from conventional coned wheelsets.
Yes, there is a way to separate a Jacobs articulated bogie so half stays with each car when “uncoupled”, but still preserve equalizing action while coupled. Those axles can be powered.
You need much better trucks under your cab and power cars – there have been arguments about relative performance of short-wheelbase trucks, but I think hunting season would come soon if you used trucks that short without really, really good yaw damping.
I did notice that when I completed the first powercar drawing in May but didn’t really have time to fix them because its in pen but I’m making revised version of the Cars and rolling stock before Christmas
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A Few Different Types of Bogies for the Power Cars:
- Alstom/Bombardier FLEXX Speed (a.k.a. Bombardier high-speed Bo-Bo bogie)
- Siemens SF500/SF4-family high-speed Bo-Bo (Vectron/ES64 lineage)
- Hitachi AT300-series Bo-Bo bogies (as used on dual-system EMUs like Class 395)
All are bolsterless and support Tilting and High Speeds of up to 120 MPH or More
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If you want tilt on the cars, you might use a high-pivoted portal frame as on Cripe’s TurboTrain
Great drawings!
Will this train have any sort of first or business class?
Also, what kind of services would it run on, like regional or long distance?
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Yes It will have both first and business class
Absolutely love it. I love railroad fantasy I made a few of my own trains on a 3D printer. One is a HiTECH BiLevel X that can easily be converted into a track geometry railcar. The railcar design would not violate any FRA standards. The design is based off of the Superliner and Californian railcar.
I also made a locomotive based on the EuroSprinter. It is like a dual mode version of the ES64P crossed with modern technology.
