That sounds to me like the tilting mechanism is a maintenance nightmare, so much that they're spending scarce capital dollars to un-tilt the coaches.
I guess I'm leery of the whole tilting concept because it feels like we've been there, done that already. Numerous railroads introduced tilting technology in the 1960s and 70s, and all it did was give them some nice publicity and 2 shiny new trainsets while the tracks continued to degrade and the US railroad industry continued to crumble.
If we're gonna spend a boatload to get fast locomotives, I hope we can do better than the JetTrain. The Acela is cumbersome and clunky, and the JetTrain is the exact same thing with a jet engine instead of a pantograph.
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