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Was trackside in Naperville, IL at 4:30 this afternoon when an Amtrak Acela locomotive and cars/train passed through, in tow (by Amtrak diesels). Really an attractive and impressive train - and this coming from a steam grouch!   It was in tow as the locomotive is electric, with a pantograph peaking out from the roof line.  Alas, no photos, as I discovered that my camera was out of juice.     Hopefully other folks captured some images!  It is heading to the Pueblo, CO RR testing grounds.

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Paul - if you google avelia liberty, wikipedia has a sketch of the powercar paint scheme which shows some transition artwork flowing from the front end into the trailing cars.  Hopefully something like that will be done.

A few interesting factoids, gleaned from the google machine and the Alstom and Amtrak websites.  The current Acela was made by a Bombardier/Alstom consortium - the new Avelia liberty is entirely Alstom - made (or at least assembled) in NY state.  Alstom (maker of the French high speed TGV trainsets) has a pretty big market in Europe, besides ze French, including the new Italo rail trainsets (my earlier thread is here:  italian-high-speed-trains )  The ETV 575 powercar looks very similar to the Avelia liberty power car - though the power is distributed among several cars in the Italo trainset, while for the Avelia Liberty only the two power cars will have power.  Also the Liberty has nine passenger cars, all articulated using Jacobs bogies, carrying ~380 passengers while the current Acela has 6 passenger cars (semi-permanently coupled but not articulated) carrying ~300 passengers.  Wikipedia has more info, including some links to recent press releases, etc.

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