"Spaceships to Stagecoaches" is an extreme comparison. I've ridden on lots of trains in europe including Eurostar, TGV, ICE1,3&T, and a few Brit intercitys (haven't been on the newer brit/virgin stuff yet), and I can easily say that the *comfort* and *ride quality* of the LRC coach *easily* compares with the euro trains listed above. With the new Genesis engines, LRC is another step closer to the 200km/h it's supposed to run.
However there are freight trains on that line andI heard that freight trains don't like cant (banked curves). So although I understand that it's much more likely that tilt was just shut off, there is that inkling that maybe...
I'll just believe that maybe once in a while there'll be an LRC train out there and the tilt will be on and functioning properly. I believe. I Believe!!
At one point on the QC trip we hit some curves at around 120km/h and we watched the horizon, and it did indeed rise and fall, but only a fraction of the what the ICN did. It was more like at 1:27 rather than what's seen at the end. Sometime later we hit another curve at 95km/h and it most certainly did NOT tilt. So I think either the tilt was working but the turn was just slow, and it doesn't tilt above a minimum speed; or the tilt was off and it was just the cant of the rails thru that turn.
Many years ago when I was a child I went on an LRC trip and I do remember the train tilting as it should. I don't remember the horizon going up and down but I remember feeling strange sensations as I sat in my seat and stared at the floor and it felt like the floor was tilting one way, then the other.
On the recent trip to Quebec I brought along my handheld GPS so I can watch the speed. Got up to 165km/h, that's almost the 200km/h of the swiss ICN.
"Spaceships to Stagecoaches" is an extreme comparison. I've ridden on lots of trains in europe including Eurostar, TGV, ICE1,3&T, and a few Brit intercitys (haven't been on the newer brit/virgin stuff yet), and I can easily say that the *comfort* and *ride quality* of the LRC coach *easily* compares with the euro trains listed above. With the new Genesis engines, LRC is another step closer to the 200km/h it's supposed to run.
Rennaisance cars still suck though. Too narrow.
dpkeys 2 years ago
However there are freight trains on that line andI heard that freight trains don't like cant (banked curves). So although I understand that it's much more likely that tilt was just shut off, there is that inkling that maybe...
I'll just believe that maybe once in a while there'll be an LRC train out there and the tilt will be on and functioning properly. I believe. I Believe!!
dpkeys 2 years ago
At one point on the QC trip we hit some curves at around 120km/h and we watched the horizon, and it did indeed rise and fall, but only a fraction of the what the ICN did. It was more like at 1:27 rather than what's seen at the end. Sometime later we hit another curve at 95km/h and it most certainly did NOT tilt. So I think either the tilt was working but the turn was just slow, and it doesn't tilt above a minimum speed; or the tilt was off and it was just the cant of the rails thru that turn.
dpkeys 2 years ago
Many years ago when I was a child I went on an LRC trip and I do remember the train tilting as it should. I don't remember the horizon going up and down but I remember feeling strange sensations as I sat in my seat and stared at the floor and it felt like the floor was tilting one way, then the other.
On the recent trip to Quebec I brought along my handheld GPS so I can watch the speed. Got up to 165km/h, that's almost the 200km/h of the swiss ICN.
dpkeys 2 years ago
They tried to get them to tilt but hey, we're not the Swiss. Comparing spaceships to stagecoaches, you are.
kaizerzydeco 2 years ago