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Pacing the 4014 back to Cheyenne from Denver.

Some of the best shots I was able to get from this past tour:

Returning to Hornell

The speed difference had nothing to do with the status of the tilt system here. The speed limit on the curve at this location is 130 mph for revenue Acelas with the tilt active. Last week, the test train was making 130 through here with the tilt deactivated. It just so happens in this specific...

Tilt VS No Tilt. Pay close attention to the lines on the coaches and the power cars.

For the purposes of testing, they are running with the same pan up, ie, they are not switching pans each time they change directions. The pantograph on Power Car #1 (PC adjacent to the First Class car) is the one that is equipped with the instrumentation, so that is the pan that is being used...

Test Extra 2102 on its 165 MPH westbound run @ Wickford JCT earlier today:

TS2 is scheduled for positioning move to Boston tomorrow morning, 4/5/21, following 172 east out of PHL. It will stay up that way for the foreseeable future in order to conduct representative route testing between Providence and Westerly during the AM daylight hours.

There you go spouting false information again... The product is still being offered as part of the Motive Power catalog https://www.wabtec.com/products/5101/mp32-mp36-and-mp40-diesel-electric-commuter-locomotives It is however unlikely that any future orders for the 36-40 versions would...

A dual mode charger is going to be no heavier than the ALP-45DP (which is only slightly heavier than the regular charger). It will likely have the same starting tractive effort as the regular charger, be capable of 4000 hp in diesel mode (higher in electric), and have similar higher speed...

Engines are as light as they can be to still perform satisfactorily with the trains they are assigned. Beyond a certain point, you begin to lose adhesive weight, and thus begin to limit the amount of tractive effort a locomotive can effectively apply to the rails, and thus lowering overall...

Trainset 2 has reached 165 mph on the NEC as of 1:39 am, 12/24/20.

Compilation of daylight shots from this past week:

More testing tonight.

KP2021 testing on the night of 9/4/20 between Holmes and Grundy:

Compilation of test runs between Jersey Avenue and Holmesburg Junction over the last couple of nights. Enjoy!

Test train action @ Farmingdale today:

Knowing Siemens, there's probably some obscure screen option you can "tab" your way into that would display prime mover output. That's probably the only way to tell if the boost feature is actually active at any given point during a trip lol. As for the high speed tilting subway, all I have to...

I never said it was proprietary to me. Yea, sure if I wanted to, I could drop it somewhere and share the link; but the point was already made as to why I wouldn't do such a thing with something like this.

The manual is proprietary, so I'm not going to share that publicly, but if you say there's no such thing as "boost mode" on a diesel locomotive, perhaps you should tell that to Siemens lol https://www.scribd.com/document/205490917/HSR-IDOT-Multi-State-Procurement-Protest-Feb-2014-Original This...