01-19-2009, 08:06 PM
I don't know if anyone else mentioned it. But GE did a little writeup about the train Obama and Biden rode the other day from Philly to DC.
http://www.gereports.com/inauguration-sp...l-express/
I didn't know this, but apparently the Genesis series are pretty old and most of them have been through their third lifetime. Apparently a lot of the metro lines get a lot more funding than Amtrak (I didn't know that). Those locomotives run about 165,000/year average. NJT signed a big deal to purchase 26 locomotives from a German company, and some of the locomotives they are replacing are forty years old. While, the GE Genesis locomotives Amtrak uses were build in the mid to late 90s.
http://www.gereports.com/inauguration-sp...l-express/
I didn't know this, but apparently the Genesis series are pretty old and most of them have been through their third lifetime. Apparently a lot of the metro lines get a lot more funding than Amtrak (I didn't know that). Those locomotives run about 165,000/year average. NJT signed a big deal to purchase 26 locomotives from a German company, and some of the locomotives they are replacing are forty years old. While, the GE Genesis locomotives Amtrak uses were build in the mid to late 90s.