jis
Permanent Way Inspector
Staff member
Administator
Moderator
AU Supporting Member
Gathering Team Member
The reason that one has semi-permanently coupled sets is because in the normal course of things they wish to manage the consists as the unit. If you have a large enough number of sets then you can just manage things in terms of sets and keep a set or two in reserve. If one starts playing fast and loose with not keeping enough contingency around then one has to start playing games about managing individual cars. If Brightline is backing itself into that situation they will pay in terms of unreliability of service. We will just have to see how it goes.True. The different paint schemes probably lean against doing too much of that, but that's an aesthetic matter, not a technical one.
[The bigger issue is that I know they have at least three distinct cars, maybe four, in each set - Premium, coach+bag, and I don't recall if the last two coaches are identical or a bit different.]