Reply to "Amtrak vs. Cement Truck"

Hawkshaw posted:

This is exactly why the head end crews say they don’t like em. Smashed windshield, glass and debri inside the cab. Crews are vulnerable in the Charger Units.

There's a lot of other reasons they don't like them as well.

Had an Amtrak engineer run on my layout last fall and he told me all kinds of things they didn't like about them.

If you can photos, just look at the control units they use on the other end of Talgo trains. Those cabs are freakishly close to the rails. Even hitting a car could bounce it right through the cab, something that never would have happened on the 59s or the 42as...

Here. you can clearly see the difference with one and a "cabbage" old 40...