What lovely equipment! I hope I get a chance to ride along someday!❤ I take the Crescent line up to D.C. regularly, and our #20 train is a well seasoned lady! Busy little coach convoy, but boy do those cars need a good scrub. Can’t enjoy the view when there’s a film splattered across the window. Sometimes I get the urge to commit reverse-vandalism and give them a scrub myself!
@@masonerger5264 I think he meant about The Empire Builder splitting in Spokane WA, where one half of the train goes to Portland, while the other half goes to Seattle. Tony, an old school guy
You know what's sad...... They had those two beautiful unused Talgo trains that would have been PERFECT for this service.... .and they sold them off to Nigeria in favor of Siemens Venture cars that are apparently shoddy as F**k!!! I wonder how many kickbacks wete involved?!?
@@robertbartels9556 In all fairness,the normal TALGO Cab car is more normal looking Amtrak SPECIFIED that type of cab so that two crewmen can be there....
@@Greatdome99 Except the accident had NOTHING to do with FRA crash standards,and EVERYTHING to do with an improperly trained crew going into an "S" curve at twice the allowed speed and derailing........given the circumstances, the train held up better than expected.....
@@kevinwynott7755 The standards aren't about crash likelihood, they're about crash survivability and resistance to damage. Imagine if somebody pointed out that a car was pulled from the market for not having sufficient seat belt strength and you responded "well that crash wasn't caused by the seatbelts". That does not make sense.
