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palindrome
10-29-2010, 02:34 PM
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/10/29/business/siemens/siemens-blogSpan.jpg

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/amtrak-orders-greener-locomotives/
kz1000ps
10-29-2010, 04:05 PM
Looks like a bad anime knockoff. Must everything have angry headlights these days?
KentXie
10-29-2010, 04:41 PM
Is that a snowplow on the bottom?
gooseberry
10-29-2010, 11:17 PM
deer deflector?
BostonUrbEx
10-29-2010, 11:37 PM
It would be flippin' AMAZING if the MBTA was able to get the current Acela locomotives for cheap money once the new ones replace them. Then just cover the cost of electrifying the Fairmount and Stoughton branches and we've got some damn nice service taking shape. 64 is a bit much though, maybe just buy like 10.
BostonUrbEx
10-29-2010, 11:50 PM
My mistake, they're not replacing the Acela's are they? I'm guessing these are for the "Toasters" (I forget their real name, they're used on regionals).
palindrome
10-30-2010, 10:46 AM
yup, replacing the toasters and the 10 year old HHP-8's.
manrush
11-04-2010, 04:50 PM
yup, replacing the toasters and the 10 year old HHP-8's.

It would be nice for the T to buy these surplus locomotives and use them on the existing electrified lines. But it would go against Commuter Rail's rules of having trainsets be ready for any place at any time.