"Pete" ,

Talgo has your troll-back over the garbage you "insist" on "saving".

Kite flying should be your new "hobby".

We insist you wear a mask!


https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/05/24-wsdot-prepares-to-remove-talgo-series-6-trainsets-as-soon-as-possible


Talgo has offered 31 cars (which can be made into two or three trainsets depending on seat capacity desired) since the accident to replace the destroyed trainset. Talgo spokeswoman Nora Friend says, WSDOT “has not wanted to take advantage of this opportunity.”

She said NTSB put the value of the destroyed trainset at $18 million.

“The total of three new Talgo Series 8 trainsets were offered to WSDOT at less than that price tag,” she added.

Those cars had been slated to go to into service in Wisconsin until that state scrapped the project.

But Talgo has also been resistant to the notion that the Series 6 cars are beyond their useful life.

Washington’s Talgo sets are 21 years old, and Friend says, they “have a usable life of at least 30 years. Series VI equipment is safe and, with Talgo’s maintenance practices, can continue to be in service for at least 10 more years.
… Series VI equipment, that is even older than the WSDOT and Amtrak owned equipment, is running all over the world.”

In its own extensive report submitted to the NTSB ahead of its findings, Talgo said its “investigation and analysis of the facts concluded that the equipment behaved very well under the extreme forces to which it was subjected. Its inherent safety features may have reduced the number of fatalities and injuries that would have occurred on a train made up of conventional North American passenger cars.”



Pete Wrote:
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> Hot Water Wrote:
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> > Pete Wrote:
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> > > A retired Cascades Talgo 6 for Portland Train
> > > Rides/ORHF and Holiday Express?
> >
> > Sure! And just where would you propose that
> they
> > store that piece of crap, so that it wouldn't't
> be
> > vandalized and/or covered with graffiti?
>
> At the ORHF yard. A Talgo 6 needs to be preserved.
> This should be more of an ORHF endeavor, since the
> Talgo 6 set (which is irrelevant to your technical
> evaluations) changed passenger service on the
> Cascades Corridor.
>
> So there.