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Can't they just use a cabbage?
I suppose the real question is, what’s the procedure for removing the cab car from the consist and is there some other unit that can cap it? The Talgo cab cars are essentially permanently coupled to the rest of the train, sharing a single-axle truck with the car behind it. You can’t just take it off and put a cabbage on there, as the adjacent car doesn’t have standard couplers, probably doesn’t have a simple way to close off the end, and probably also doesn’t have something that can hold onto that pair of wheels.

And you wouldn’t couple a cabbage to the severely damaged cab car and run it in service.
 
I think its safe to say that Talgo cab car is totaled and I don't see how that set operates without it. Is there *any* spare equipment anywhere that can be subbed in? Last summer I noticed there was a Horizon set with a Viewliner baggage car at the end and no NPCU running but I think I only saw it once or twice.
 
I think its safe to say that Talgo cab car is totaled and I don't see how that set operates without it. Is there *any* spare equipment anywhere that can be subbed in? Last summer I noticed there was a Horizon set with a Viewliner baggage car at the end and no NPCU running but I think I only saw it once or twice.
Yeah I highly doubt they would fix it considering the impending arrival of the airo's.
 
Last glimpse I got of it on Wednesday at the Seattle Amtrak yard. They moved it somewhere else when I went back on Thursday to get a better look.
 
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