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I can probably help you with info on the X2000. I was involved with this train from its first test run in Sweden 1989 and I trained Amtrak's engineers and road foremen how to operate it and I was always in the cab when the train was running.

As far as I remember the ICE trains had its normal cab instruments just like the X2000. On the X2000 the electric system was modified to handle 11 kV/25 Hz, 12,5 kV/60Hz, and 25 kV/60 Hz. It also got Brecknell & Willes pantographs. It kept its original headlights, they were bright enough. The...

Stainless steel provides very good protection. The collosion posts are in the right places and it is all steel. The Amfleet cars are also built of stainless steel.

It is correct that the German ICE train has aluminum carbodies. But the Swedish X2000 is all stainless steel. The cars weigh from 112,000 lbs and up depending on equipment. The cab car and the power car weigh much more. The cars also have deformation zones.

As a new member I have been reading some of the different topics in this form and found this about Amtrak's test trains. Since I know some about these trains (especially X2000) I would like to answer some of the questions. Both the ICE train and X2000 have been returned to Germany and Sweden...