Amtrak assumes control of Acela maintenance
Amtrak is taking over control of the maintenance of its top line Acela trains from the Bombardier-Alstom consortium seven years earlier than expected. After some high-profile failures with the new service, most recently problems with the brakes that caused most of the trains to be taken out of service until the problems could be fixed, this seems like a strange move. Maybe they decided they needed to build up the in-house maintenance experience, or that they could potentially save money this way. Whatever the reasons for their decision, I hope the service does not get any worse.
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csa | 8:33 PM |
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I seriously doubt it is because they could save money. The whole Acela project has been a disgrace to competancy. It would at this point, SERIOUSLY and in good probability be better to just buy new tilt trains from Talgo or some other entity with proven technology that isn't some wierd psuedo hybrid alteration of bad management, marketing, and engineering.
