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I wouldn't be surprised about Bombardier merger trouble. I remember reading that Bombardier had gone the way of so many other big companies, making bad management choices and winding up with production problems and overpaid executives. I know one of our Sounder coach orders out here was delayed quite a bit, though some of that may have had to do with the pandemic. Now, with only five-coach trains instead of seven on the south line most of the time and only two of the original four trainsets running on the north line, Sounder has something like 25 coaches in storage. And by my equipment rotation figuring, restructuring from a weekday commute-only service (with some game trains on weekends) to all-day seven-day-a-week service could put even more coaches in storage, at least temporarily. That's based on a proposed schedule that's floating around.