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Siemens completes first car shell for Brightline train
Very Cool! I’m so excited! I do however find “fluted” stainless steel sides more classy.
RE: “These coaches will be the only carbody with a flat sidewall of this type in the U.S. market.” The Viewliner II dining, sleeping, and baggage cars being constructed for Amtrak by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles are similarly designed to slope inward from a wider mid-section, but those cars follow previous Budd Company fluted — rather than smooth — exteriors."
Have these guys never seen an Acela coach?