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| Author: | CTA4453 [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 7:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Talgo VI Sets Withdrawn From Service |
Railway Gazettearticle talking about the two 12-car sets being withdrawn from service. WSDOTlink to cars for sale and bidding process. |
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| Author: | Rainier Rails [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Talgo VI Sets Withdrawn From Service |
There are 2 more Series VI trainsets owned by Amtrak outright, and these will go through a similar sale process (all 4 were removed from active service just the other week). And a note, these sets for almost all of their service lives have been 13 cars, although in recent years, cars had been removed and/or shuffled around, making some sets longer (up to 14 cars) and some shorter (down to 11 cars). I'm not sure when this happened or why (although an educated guess would be mechanical issues creeping in as the sets got older and parts became an issue). The only set that was 12 cars in length for most of the history of the Cascades was the set originally ordered for a stillborn LAX-Las Vegas service (following the 1997 cancellation of the Desert Wind), a.k.a., the Mt. Adams set, which was the one destroyed in the wreck near Nisqually Junction (DuPont), WA, in December 2017. There were also a few spare cars that were used primarily as parts sources (some from when the sets had cars shuffled around in the early years); some owned by WSDOT, some by Amtrak. The retirement of these 4 remaining Series VI sets was spurred on by the NTSB's recommendations in their official report following the 2017 wreck. Service will continue to be provided by the 2 newer Series VIII sets which have already been in service for several years, which were ordered by and are owned by Oregon DOT (these are also 13 cars in length each). And which was made possible in part by the service reductions during the ongoing pandemic, and also in part by the long-rumored-and-planned, and now officially finalized, acquisition by WSDOT of the other 2 Series VIII sets that had been ordered by (but not used by) Wisconsin DOT. Interestingly, these 2 ex-Wisconsin sets are 14 cars in length each, and are planned to arrive from Talgo in Milwaukee next month (they had to be modified from their original configuration to include both 2 business class cars and a "table car" to match the sets already in use). |
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