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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Yeah the freaking windshield is completely vertical. Even the EMD F59 has a more aerodynamic appearance, albeit still pretty ugly. The cars look good, not much FRA could screw up there - they look like standard Talgo shared bogey cars. That locomotive though is just downright embarrassing. I don't think the Bulgarian state railway would let that slug be seen in public.
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It's not a locomotive, it's a cab car. What else would you expect when existing American train engineers tell designers they want cab layouts as identical as possible to the real locomotives on the opposite end of the train? Yes, a miniature F40 cab would do. Golly, the exiting Cascades Talgo trains actually use a full scale F40 cabbages. What a shame Amtrak wasn't using streamlined F9s as cabbage cars which the Talgo designers could copy.