Simply due to New York State paying for new colors on them.
Oh, really?! They can afford to paint 18 locomotives, but not to do high speed rail and extending the tunnel height on the Hudson River tunnels?!
Do you know how much it costs to paint locomotives? On the order of $1,000 to $10,000. These are small line item costs in the transportation department for the state of New York, not huge multimillion dollar projects, so yes they are much easier to get the money for them. It could even have come from cost savings elsewhere in their budget.
Exactly. Some people for unknown reason will keep beating on a stupid idea with very little return on investment. Frothing too much I suppose.
You asked the same thing on the NEC fans Facebook page and you got told the answer by multiple people. Despite your ignorance and telling everyone they were wrong. Cause you have clearly operated or have been in the cab of an ACS unit. If you want to double dip and get told the same thing. That's your issue.
You do realize a tunnel project is billions of dollars. Not about $100k to reprint 18 units that are beat to a pulp.
So they can get Superliners into NYP, which will apparently bring about world peace and solve global hunger or something.
Actually, there is a pretty good reason. To increase passenger capacity. A Bilevel could carry more passengers than a single level.
Actually it is a pretty dumb reason, since there already are double decker equipment that fit through the NEC which gives the capacity advantage without spending jillions of dollars on fixing infrastructure. As a matter of fact TGV Duplexes used extensively in France would fit nicely through the NEC loading gauge. So no need to spend money on pointless vanity project and instead spend it where it is truly needed.
Yup. Many TGVs out of the box would have a floor height problem on the NEC. They would be OK with a step for non ADA folks only. The point I was making is that the loading gauge of NEC allowing 14'6 height is plenty tall to allow two decks while interfacing with a current standard platform using a mid level for doors at each end of a height matching the platform. All that changes is the number of steps in the staircase connecting to the two levels.
That honestly is the stupidest reason I've heard.. On top of raising tunnels you'd have to take tracks OOS at NYP of all places to go from a high platform to low..
Yep. We all know the biggest problem Amtrak faces is that it cannot run Superliners into NYP. If/when that occurs, all will be well.
It will even reverse Global Warming and immediately fund Amtrak to take over all the freight railroads in one fell swoop. A new Department of Amtrak will be created at the Federal Government with its own Secretary of Amtrak, and we will all live happily ever after foaming even more frothily all over.
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