Seaboard92
Engineer
While its older news that these trains have been running I figured I would start a thread on them. The Railjet is composed of Viaggio Comfort rolling stock and I find it to be a very nice train. I had my first voyage on it back in 2009 a few months after the train started service in 2008.
The first thing that struck me was how sharp the train looked on the platform. The next thing I noticed was how lovely the interior of first class and second class were. Plenty of room, very spacious, and loads of monitors displaying eta and current speed. The next thing I noticed is how modern and sophisticated the lounge feels.
The ride was very smooth either that's from good track or a good design. But likely it's from both. The crew looked very sharp and was on their a game the entire time.
Now my next comments. I feel that the Railjet might be a very good successor to amtraks current Northeast corridor offerings. The way the train appears to be built gives me the thought one can expand the consist fairly easily with demand. The next benefit to it is the locomotive can be separated easily from the consist so the regionals going south of DC could still change their engine out and continue on. The train has a top speed of 140 giving some time savings as well on the NEC. The last advantage using these trains on the NE Regionals would free up Amfleet coaches for other services.
But wait there's more it's a Siemens product so it should get delivered within our lifetimes unlike CAF.
The first thing that struck me was how sharp the train looked on the platform. The next thing I noticed was how lovely the interior of first class and second class were. Plenty of room, very spacious, and loads of monitors displaying eta and current speed. The next thing I noticed is how modern and sophisticated the lounge feels.
The ride was very smooth either that's from good track or a good design. But likely it's from both. The crew looked very sharp and was on their a game the entire time.
Now my next comments. I feel that the Railjet might be a very good successor to amtraks current Northeast corridor offerings. The way the train appears to be built gives me the thought one can expand the consist fairly easily with demand. The next benefit to it is the locomotive can be separated easily from the consist so the regionals going south of DC could still change their engine out and continue on. The train has a top speed of 140 giving some time savings as well on the NEC. The last advantage using these trains on the NE Regionals would free up Amfleet coaches for other services.
But wait there's more it's a Siemens product so it should get delivered within our lifetimes unlike CAF.