gunrunnerjohn posted:I think maybe the engineers were thinking about the 150 MPH speeds and aerodynamic efficiency when they were designing it. It's purpose built, it's not artwork.
Well, they can go back to school, because there are much prettier high speed trains running all over the civilized world that are engineered for speeds Amtrak will never see.
Perhaps they envisioned Nike or Puma advertising wraps completing the sneaker look. I am going to coin the new nickname for this train, "The Sneaker." It looks like a tennis shoe and will occasionally sneak up to 150 mph on a few miles of track.
Im glad to see any rail passenger investment we can get. Hopefully it is reliable out of the box. True high speed it only pretends to be. I have experienced China's national high speed rail system, nothing comes close.
