@Megahammerheadshark If you look-up Intercity-Express in whichever search-engine you choose, it will explain it better, but it is mostly used in Europe, but not here in the states. Hope this helps.
@Marcus666Sund The Chinese Railways bought a single X-2000 unit in 1998. It ran from Hong Kong to Canton. However, as it breaks down so often and parts had run out, the unit has been storage since 2007. It is likely to be scrapped as Sweden doesn't want to buy it back.
Well for example, its harder for the US to build hi speed rail because countries like Japan are long strait countries. America is wide and vast. But seriously, America can do A LOT better than that.
@TheDylanJoyce The X2000 and ICE was doing a trial runs on the NEC for about a year so Amtrak to see if the euro trains could handle the horrible maintained US tracks.
@siemenstraffic its sad that with being such a plane manufacturer, people should realize trains are safer and use less feul i dont even think trains use feul
I was on the first trip of the X2000 in 1993, (Amtrak Employees and Family) I spent time in the AME7's before seeing the controls of the X2000 it was like a Spaceship for the Engineer. I still like the old coaches that would bop all over, and be 3 hours late. Pulled by an E60. :)
@Amtrak1194 Agree, the X2000 is a very nice train.
haven't you heard that the US will get some high speed trains? Is was mentioned Orlando-Tampa route and California route. The rolling stock would be plausible the Japanese Shinkansen N700 Series to run @ 300-330km/h (186-205MPH)
Personally i'd plug for the nozomi 500 set rather than the nozomi 700, it looks a lot nicer and its style is more in keeping with the styling of the acela. they could also try the 125mph rated UK Pendolino or the Eurostar sets
@Xantec Agree with you, the Nozomi 500 looks better and it's faster than the N700, but why JR West bought only 9 of them? ... too expensive, not to say the most expensive train in the world.
@music1chanel The X2000 Is great for trips less then four hours, More you will have a neck ache. Every turn the train tilts, And that means your head will move on every turn, especially when you´re sleeping (thats the only negative thing whit X2000)..
@xirux01 how do you figue that out, the tilt is dependant on the speed and so you dont actually notice you are going around a corner at all, your neck dosent move at all, the same as it dosent when you bank round a corner in a plane
European RAIL sistem are builted for high speed trains. see conectiont between France ( SNCF ) - Germany ( DB ) - Nederland - Belgium - Switzerland ( SBB ) and United Kingdom ( ATOC and conection to London with EUROSTAR train). In built its now the Spanish rail and conversion for interoperability with all European railway network
Very interesting, I didn't know that Amtrak tested the X2000 and the ICE and I didn't know that the X2 tilts. The only railway in America were they could these trains would be the Northeast Corridor and even that is not as good as German High Speed Lines or Swedish Railways.
Actually, Japan took over that business with the US on their high-speed rails on their Shinkansen N700 Series to go on Orlando- Tampa route and/or in California (one or both routes)
hahaha this is pathetic X) i live in sweden and i mean that we are pathetic :p the fastest trains we have in Sweden are the x2000! Our government just ruins the trust on the public owned company just so they can sell it. I hope that we get some TGV tracks and trains soon!
tgv and x2000 would of cost way more than a set of acelas due to the us have stricter regulations on how a train id o be build and its safety features
yea i guess thats true. they wanted to go with cheap but yet dependable i guess. it sure would b nice to see tgv or ice operate at speed over here one day. i doubt itll b n my lifetime tho.
Yea that's the collision deformation requirements. Well i have yet to see a high speed train wreck that this collision deformation requirements would have prevented loss of life, or anything for that matter. The only BIG accident involving a high speed train was when the ICE train in germany derailed and got stuffed under a bridge. But the front two cars didn't even derail, and the others just piled up under the bridge and the bridge collapsed.
not really the ICE couldn't go anymore becuase US tracks can't handle it. German tracks are built for high speed so they can handle the pressure delt by the locomotive.
I was going to type out a long-winded remarks to your asinine comment about the U.S. and their war policies, but then I figured that your stupidass comment was the literally the horse beating its self. You're not worth the keystrokes.
@UraeusAnkhAmon Okay, thank you for correcting me. It is the war industry, I just made a connection of the two, because they go hand-in-hand together! ; > }
@TheJoshsam which they are, Siemens/Velaro will be making the trains for the Florida High Speed Corridor, and it will be only for the HST service, and California will be getting its HST service on the existing Caltrain lines using the quad-track arrangement, the HST on the iunner two, Caltrain on the outer two.
That was nowhere near a K5LA. That's the original German horn on the ICE train. The K5LA is what the AEM-7's have on them. The HHP-8's and Acela Express power cars have K-5LH's which is the Canadian-tuned version of the K5LA.
Yeh I don't understand why they got the Acela. Surely it would have been of more economical benefit to purchase a high speed train already in operation - as opposed to developing a slower, lower capacity train?
Pinning your hopes on Barak Obama will be like pinning a note on a baloon. I guarantee those approval numbers will come up as unemployment and inflation goes up. I am a pretty healthy 48, but I seriously doubt I will live to see even one mile of High Speed Rail laid in the US. Obama is going to break this promise like numerous others as the economic realities of his policies set in.
What Americans forget seeing sleek shiny European/Asian trains is the good freight system in the U.S.. You've got a 65.6% modal split for Rail in the US, in Europe it's somewhere near 16%. So even railroads in America are all belching black diesel fumes, aging locomotives, rust and clanking metal, environmentraly you're doing better than in Europe where we have a few high tech trains but lots of trucks.
Our freight railroads aren't THAT rusty, old, and run down!! In fact railroads like Union Pacific and CSX have done a great replacing their loco fleets with more fuel-efficient models. The era of Alcos belching black smoke is now reserved for museums and a few excursion operators.
By the way, for the clowns who are panning my last comment and doing your stupid tired "thumbs down" act, please do something constructive like try to disprove even one word of my premise.
"Our freight railroads aren't THAT rusty, old, and run down!"
Apart from the arguable disadvantages of Diesel Traction, the U.S. is ahead when it comes to things like automatic couplers, Flashing rear-end devices, and the RFID-Tagging of rolling stock. I'm not quite as sure about whether there is the latest technology in the Locomotives, meaning IGBT converters and asynchronous three-phase motors.
Three-phase traction technology was introduced in the US by Siemens. But you forgot to mention bigger clearances, locomotive standardization, rotary discharge systems, HEP, among others.
American railroads may look ugly, but they have VERY low costs and VERY high reliability.
Rotary discharge is COOL, but we'll not have them in Europe before we have new couplers. It's not only Loco standardization, there's a lot more, isn't there? Bigger clearances are not necessarily a sign of modernity, they lower operating costs but raise Infrastructure costs. Just Google Hitlers Reichsspurbahn for that one. But what is HEP?
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Finally Millard, I hope you continue your thinking. It's only going to speed up the demise of the Obama haters. I assume you're repub., but if you're not you might as well be. You keep chosing the Sarah Palins, the C street gang (what a screwed up group-representing "American Values" LMAO), the Limbaughs and Ann Coulters. Even if Obama fails, it looks like repubs are a dying breed. In re Obama, he has a brain. We avoided a repub. caused depression, and economists now say we came damn close.
Obviously the infrastructure quality doesn't need to be that high for the low speeds, so no slab track in the U.S.
The point I was trying to make was that you will have more rust, dirt and noise from Diesel-powered Freight trains than from electric Passenger trains.
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You haven't avoided a thing. Obama's policies continue ri destroy jobs and you exult that that stock market has recovered to 9000 (when it WAS over 14,000 before Reid and Pelosi got ahold of power. I stand by my original premise that Obama's out-of-control spending and socialistic power grab will backfire against high-speed rail. We ARE going to beat this stupid "cap and trade" bill and this even more egregious government takeover of healthcare and Obama will be a lame duck in just 9 months.
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By the way, what's this obsession with Sarah Palin anyway???? Did I say one word about Sarah Palin?? No. I said that Obama's OWN policies are going to backfire on him because the principles just don't work. They never have and never will .
BTW... Sarah Palin is and has everything that feminists always said women should be. She's strong, independent, outspoken, AND has power, influence as well as a husband and a family, and for THAT, she gets trashed!!
You must be joking. Even conservatives don't agree with you. This from Joseph Lazzaro:
But those few positives in no way blot-out the Bush Administration's many failures: scant job creation, unemployment high and rising, declining real median incomes, record budget deficits, record home foreclosures, a large trade deficit, no energy policy, no health care policy, and increasing poverty rates, among other problems. Add on to the above two other unknowns: two wars.
"I inherited a recession, Im ending on a recession, he noted at his press conference on Jan 12th. He wasnt asking for pity, only to be judged on what happened in between. Unfortunately, that economic legacy is littered with wasted opportunity, bad judgments and politicised policy. The budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in Americas retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess. "
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u cab go die like i said i do not need crap from u!!!! u r an annoying nerd ok just accept that fact and b done leave me alone ok goodbye go 2 hell
About 80 percent of people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain have a positive view of Mr. Obama, a ratio that declines only slightly, to about 70 percent, in the other two countries surveyed, Britain and the United States. The only politician who comes close is Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who gets a positive rating from two-thirds of those in Continental Europe but from only one-third of Britons and Americans.
Mr. Obama should not have been elected to be popular in Europe or wherever. He is elected to act in the best intersts of the United States, or at least, that's what voters EXPECTED him to do.
You ask posters to "disprove even one word of my premise". How do we 'disprove' a premise when none really exists? .. You engage in literary masturbation more or less. You throw some pithy line out and hope it feels good e.g. " Pinning your hopes on Barak (sic) Obama will be like pinning a note on a baloon. (sic) That was informative, not to mention written at about a 4th grade level. There is no "premise" in anything you've said. I'd note that this does seem to be the current repub. strategy.
The stock market has recovered significantly & nearly all economists now see a conclusion to the recession. What do republicans do? Accuse Obama of being born outside the country. That's not even lame; it's just pathetic. As for your bizarre comments about Obama's popularity abroad, you again squeeze the rep. party line out from between your butt cheeks. "Who cares what the world thinks of us?". Well, we should. Since when is having a president internationally admired NOT in our interest?
Look, the "my way or the highway" BS we've suffered from in the last 8 years has been catostrophic. Read Andrew Bacevich, ret. Col, Princeton Ph.D. on his views of Bush's foreighn policy. Read Fareed Zararkia's "The Post American World". The draft dodging neo-cons nearly destroyed our ability to guide or even influence world affairs. Look, you're typical of the repub. party- older, white..& increasingly irrelevant. Demographics look fatal for repubs. Now. think up a real premise.
PARIS — President Barack Obama remains by far the most popular world leader among people in major Western nations and is the one political figure on whom people consistently pin their hopes in the economic crisis, according to new polls conducted for the International Herald Tribune.
What we need now is a system of tracks dedicated to high speed trains, and we need to expand the system beyond the northeast. And we need to start electrifying the system. If we can start working together, we can overcome decades of Republican abuse of our transit system and once again become a major player.
internationalantifa, thank you for your sentiments. You're far too kind to Bush. He was much more of a bitch of the oil industry. Add to that, the military industrial complex, the drug industry, the wealthiest 2% of the population, the health insurers, etc etc. The list could go on forever. We are returning to sanity. While I live very near the white house, and in a city that voted 92% for Obama, I think the rest of the country is sick of republicans. We're moving in the right direction.
jmjfanss, I'll take that as a no. Investment in infrastructure is needed like never before. First, because we're way behind the industrialized world & it's needed. It's embarrasing. 2nd, jobs are needed. FDR realized this when he began the New Deal. Not only did we build much of the infrastructure we currently use (yes, it's getting old), but FDR made sure social stability was maintained. We survived.
Explain why this is waste. P.S. "Nobama" is really childish.
Are you kidding me, nobama is defintely be said now and this is nothing but pork barrel spending and it could hurt the dollar even more, quit printing money, this is all a scam to create the new world order.
and nobama is associate with the council on foreign relations, he's a fraud
the only one you should have voted for is Ron Paul.
END THE FED!
Yes infrastracture is need, but what I Can't stand is pork barrell spending.
too much pork, cut spending overseas and here as well.
You made a lot more assertions. Why don't YOU back up your comments with facts??? Give Obama another 6 months and he'll have the country sick of him too. And since when did Washington DC NOT support the Democratic candidate with 92% of the vote??
1) CNN poll, ref. direction of the country - " Sixty-three percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday say they think the policies being proposed by the President would push the nation in the right direction"..
2) Gallup June 2, 09, Overall approval 67%, 32% disapprove,
I rode the X-2000 when it demonstrated on the Northeast Corridor. The ride was incrediby smooth! Too bad Amtrak went for the lead sled Acelas...very heay and way overpowered for the lenth of the trains they operate.
This are test versions, aren't they? I thought the X2000 only runs in Sweden and the ICE only in and to/from Germany. Or did Amtrak also buy some of these trains? I thought they only run with the Acela Express (like in Microsoft Train Simulator)
the Acela is the TGV version, so in a sense they did buy the TGV. But they didnt articulate the train by sharing the wheelsets, so it defeated the purpose of HSR. I made some blog discussions about it many years back around 2001, but i cant remember why the wheelsets werernt articulated like the TGV. I think it had something to do with US weight standards.
Why don't you educate yourself before asking stupidass questions.
1) The TGV is TOO WIDE to fit on U.S. tracks
2) The TGV isn't built to U.S.safety specifications, mandated by the federal government.
3) Acela is PLENTY fast and can reach nearly 200mph. That's not the issue. The issue is there are way too many curves on tracks along the NEC to allow TRUE high speed service. Acela is limited 125mph or less because of this.
Yeah, there are some clearance issues on the route, so the tilting on the Acela is reduced from what it could do. In some places, it's disabled entirely.
Hell yeah. I took an ICE train from Kaiserslautern to Munich in 2006. My only gripes were that they allowed smoking [of course, it's Germany] and the interior was smaller than the enormous Superliner coach seats I'm used to. It was fast, generally comfortable, quiet and looked great.
that was back in the past. smoking is now forbidden in all trains & restaurants.(new law). don't forget the seats have to be a little smaller cause the ICEs are often crwoded as hell here in germany. and they need all space thats available. ;o)
I think the atitude of the power line is more uneaven. I dont know about the hight in germany, but in sweden its over 6 meters. We have 2 story trains as well as in the US
If they would have bought the ICE it would have beena great choice. I've travelled in those and trust me they are very very comfortable in both first and second class as well as very high tech.
Well at list is an original train exclusive only to amtrak. That ICE you see there is actually a second generation ICE it,s known as ICE2 there is a third even better called valero or ICE3.
We used something similar: The Acela Express!
cyndie26 1 month ago
Nochwas was der Ami kauft und selber nicht hinkriegt! Achja die Schienen gehören ebenso zu Amerikas Fehlschlag!
Giddeon87 5 months ago
Is Amtrak Ice still in use?
Megahammerheadshark 5 months ago
@Megahammerheadshark If you look-up Intercity-Express in whichever search-engine you choose, it will explain it better, but it is mostly used in Europe, but not here in the states. Hope this helps.
busog97641 4 months ago
Are these X2000 still in use in America ?
NordikFilm 6 months ago
@NordikFilm No. They returned to Sweden shortly after the trial.
RaptureandZune 6 months ago
lol, good that Amtrak didnt buy X2000, here in Sweden, they are a pain in the ass when talking about relibility and maintenance.
Marcus666Sund 7 months ago
@Marcus666Sund The Chinese Railways bought a single X-2000 unit in 1998. It ran from Hong Kong to Canton. However, as it breaks down so often and parts had run out, the unit has been storage since 2007. It is likely to be scrapped as Sweden doesn't want to buy it back.
RaptureandZune 6 months ago
too fast for our politicians to grasp
granskare 7 months ago
0:19 I saw a MARC train!
AnthonyA5555 8 months ago
Well for example, its harder for the US to build hi speed rail because countries like Japan are long strait countries. America is wide and vast. But seriously, America can do A LOT better than that.
nukinfuts1000 9 months ago
I am all in favor of extending overhead catenaries from DC to Charlotte, for high speed rail but I know that won't happen to expensive.
scrat437 10 months ago
8 People Got Owned By This Train
DanDaManStudios1 1 year ago
what is the ICE train doing here? does Amtrak still own any?
TheDylanJoyce 1 year ago
@TheDylanJoyce The X2000 and ICE was doing a trial runs on the NEC for about a year so Amtrak to see if the euro trains could handle the horrible maintained US tracks.
siemenstraffic 1 year ago
@siemenstraffic its sad that with being such a plane manufacturer, people should realize trains are safer and use less feul i dont even think trains use feul
flyersfan1799 9 months ago
ice in the usa? wtf? :D
MadeInGermany81 1 year ago
Nice catch!!
RIRRmuseum 1 year ago
I was on the first trip of the X2000 in 1993, (Amtrak Employees and Family) I spent time in the AME7's before seeing the controls of the X2000 it was like a Spaceship for the Engineer. I still like the old coaches that would bop all over, and be 3 hours late. Pulled by an E60. :)
sonofjabba 1 year ago
and from this, we got the acela
hawleywe 1 year ago
X2000 should have been our purchase!
It was faster than the ICE it tilted and the arrangement of one power car and a cab car looked very appealing!
Amtrak1194 1 year ago
@Amtrak1194 Agree, the X2000 is a very nice train.
haven't you heard that the US will get some high speed trains? Is was mentioned Orlando-Tampa route and California route. The rolling stock would be plausible the Japanese Shinkansen N700 Series to run @ 300-330km/h (186-205MPH)
Here's a ling here on Youtube to watch it:
watch?v=NRAiWEBOI-c
AF401 1 year ago
@AF401
Personally i'd plug for the nozomi 500 set rather than the nozomi 700, it looks a lot nicer and its style is more in keeping with the styling of the acela. they could also try the 125mph rated UK Pendolino or the Eurostar sets
Xantec 1 year ago
@Xantec Agree with you, the Nozomi 500 looks better and it's faster than the N700, but why JR West bought only 9 of them? ... too expensive, not to say the most expensive train in the world.
AF401 1 year ago
I don't get why yall are so ungrateful. At least we have a high speed train. It's better than not having one at all.
landoverdivision321 1 year ago
Did amtrak keep the X2000?
disneylandguy10 1 year ago
Since Amtrak did experiments with these high speed trains before making the Acela. Will Amtrak do this again to make their Acela II trains?
Trainmaster189 1 year ago
nice video :)
NEELAELISABET 1 year ago
i like the nwe x2000
music1chanel 1 year ago
@music1chanel The X2000 Is great for trips less then four hours, More you will have a neck ache. Every turn the train tilts, And that means your head will move on every turn, especially when you´re sleeping (thats the only negative thing whit X2000)..
xirux01 1 year ago
@xirux01 i know now. but i did't have a neck ache. i did sleep well
music1chanel 1 year ago
@xirux01 how do you figue that out, the tilt is dependant on the speed and so you dont actually notice you are going around a corner at all, your neck dosent move at all, the same as it dosent when you bank round a corner in a plane
dasy2k1 1 year ago
European RAIL sistem are builted for high speed trains. see conectiont between France ( SNCF ) - Germany ( DB ) - Nederland - Belgium - Switzerland ( SBB ) and United Kingdom ( ATOC and conection to London with EUROSTAR train). In built its now the Spanish rail and conversion for interoperability with all European railway network
nemesiss01 1 year ago
too fast for usa :)
granskare 1 year ago
are these trains in service? where are they?
TheDylanJoyce 1 year ago
@TheDylanJoyce the i.c.e is in germany and tge x2000 is in Switzerland I believe.
bencofilms 1 year ago
@bencofilms The X2000 is in Sweden operated by SJ
AF402 1 year ago
very nice x2000 amtrak train
MrFarguss 1 year ago
Sorry about were I put I didn't know that the X2 tilts!
I ment the X2000!!
MC2251 1 year ago
Very interesting, I didn't know that Amtrak tested the X2000 and the ICE and I didn't know that the X2 tilts. The only railway in America were they could these trains would be the Northeast Corridor and even that is not as good as German High Speed Lines or Swedish Railways.
MC2251 1 year ago 4
@MC2251 If it´s bad tracks, then the x2000 will give you a really bumpy & noice ride.
xirux01 1 year ago
cool!!
porcsatul 1 year ago
Ach da kommen unsere alten Züge Deutschland hin und dann auch noch bei Amtrak.
TheVWPaddy 1 year ago
I predict, if USA is going to get a High speed rail, it will be funded by Chinese
money (China being only nation with money to burn),
and will be Chinese built CRH trains, and most likely CRH3 - Siemans Velaro.
running at 350km/h as we speak.
simhopp 1 year ago
@simhopp
Actually, Japan took over that business with the US on their high-speed rails on their Shinkansen N700 Series to go on Orlando- Tampa route and/or in California (one or both routes)
AF401 1 year ago 3
Agreed - the ICE would have been much better than Acela.
ccolimon 1 year ago 2
hahaha this is pathetic X) i live in sweden and i mean that we are pathetic :p the fastest trains we have in Sweden are the x2000! Our government just ruins the trust on the public owned company just so they can sell it. I hope that we get some TGV tracks and trains soon!
bulletprooved 1 year ago
0:33 : Sounded exactly like a Metroliner horn.
nyshortline 1 year ago
ds erste is in schweden^^
612lsaFendt 1 year ago
why did they settle with the acela? they should have gone with the ICE
vietman90210 1 year ago
i think the X2000 and the ICE train were too much money to make.
lexmarks567 1 year ago
@vietman90210
I agree, but vote for the French made TGV
ianjohn05 1 year ago
@vietman90210 Nah
cooldit1 1 year ago
go x2000!
domnik25 1 year ago
If Amtrak got the Tilt and the ICE, would they paint it differently?
five0fan 2 years ago
what does the German ICE1 do in America?!
shtzi 2 years ago
it was an experimental test drive to collect data for building the acela
F7Aengineer 2 years ago
why didnt they go with the tgv or something? acela isnt more advanced than the tgv ice or x2000 is it? now i do know the acelas top speed is 200
clark38571 2 years ago
tgv and x2000 would of cost way more than a set of acelas due to the us have stricter regulations on how a train id o be build and its safety features
F7Aengineer 2 years ago
yea i guess thats true. they wanted to go with cheap but yet dependable i guess. it sure would b nice to see tgv or ice operate at speed over here one day. i doubt itll b n my lifetime tho.
clark38571 2 years ago
yea it would of been nice tho real nice well with the national bullet train system goin in effect you never knw what might end up over here than
F7Aengineer 2 years ago
true...for all we know we might end up getting something COMPLETLY different
clark38571 2 years ago
bombriader coming out with a turbine train that remotely look likes a tgv
F7Aengineer 2 years ago
Yea that's the collision deformation requirements. Well i have yet to see a high speed train wreck that this collision deformation requirements would have prevented loss of life, or anything for that matter. The only BIG accident involving a high speed train was when the ICE train in germany derailed and got stuffed under a bridge. But the front two cars didn't even derail, and the others just piled up under the bridge and the bridge collapsed.
Those american requirements are stupid!
randknu 2 years ago
200 what? km/h? that's very slow for an highspeed train...
TheJoshsam 2 years ago
200 mph..sorry i shouldve been specific
clark38571 2 years ago 2
With passengers, Amtrak ran both the ICE and X2000 at 135 mph (217 km/hr). In test runs, the trains got up to about 160 mph (260 km/hr).
mj1234321 2 years ago
not really the ICE couldn't go anymore becuase US tracks can't handle it. German tracks are built for high speed so they can handle the pressure delt by the locomotive.
UFO721 2 years ago 26
@UFO721
almost all european main lines are build for highspeed speed trains..., time for the US to spend out money for the citicens instead of war....
TheJoshsam 2 years ago 71
I was going to type out a long-winded remarks to your asinine comment about the U.S. and their war policies, but then I figured that your stupidass comment was the literally the horse beating its self. You're not worth the keystrokes.
Neno8403 2 years ago
jerk.
crazy4lego 1 year ago
@TheJoshsam
I agree completely. That and Education
ianjohn05 1 year ago
Not UK ;0
SonicGeneration 1 year ago
@TheJoshsam War makes the government money not trains.
busog97641 1 year ago
@busog97641 War makes no government money at all.
UraeusAnkhAmon 4 months ago
@UraeusAnkhAmon Okay, thank you for correcting me. It is the war industry, I just made a connection of the two, because they go hand-in-hand together! ; > }
busog97641 4 months ago
@TheJoshsam which they are, Siemens/Velaro will be making the trains for the Florida High Speed Corridor, and it will be only for the HST service, and California will be getting its HST service on the existing Caltrain lines using the quad-track arrangement, the HST on the iunner two, Caltrain on the outer two.
JATO457 1 year ago
@JATO457
And the new york high speed rail project.
CuseRecorder 1 year ago
@TheJoshsam I AGREE
flyersfan1799 9 months ago
@TheJoshsam Clearly money should be spent in education so that people don't write "citicenz"
lotwyo 9 months ago
@lotwyo Write in Dutch for me without any mistake and we speak each other again.
TheJoshsam 9 months ago
@TheJoshsam Or kickbacks for the big buisnesses who outsorce the jobs.
GenralMajors 5 months ago
@TheJoshsam
If the US would spend half on arming their military, they could even have Maglev all over the country.
Muhlineks 2 months ago
@UFO721 i have to disagree - its still steel wheels on steel rail. US track is typically stronger due to the amount of tonnage it moves in freight
BlackCavalier52 11 months ago
@UFO721 all question - in price)
Ottonturk 9 months ago
I like these trains better than the acela.Cool K5LA at 0:34
ned987 2 years ago
That was nowhere near a K5LA. That's the original German horn on the ICE train. The K5LA is what the AEM-7's have on them. The HHP-8's and Acela Express power cars have K-5LH's which is the Canadian-tuned version of the K5LA.
nyshortline 2 years ago 3
oh. I Just read someone else's comment and thought it was one.
ned987 2 years ago
The trains by my house have the k5la and the k5ll. They are such cool horns!
Wonka275 2 years ago 2
in 2013, Amtrak should buy more fleets of Bonbardier trains.
sideslide23 2 years ago
Yeh I don't understand why they got the Acela. Surely it would have been of more economical benefit to purchase a high speed train already in operation - as opposed to developing a slower, lower capacity train?
deathstardisco 2 years ago
Beautiful ! Greetings from Poland .
Qreqorius 2 years ago
i remember i saw a x2000 with a freight load behind it...
k5lta 2 years ago
ABB made theAmtrak train, the company was located down the road from me in a neighboring town. Now they are gone, sad. I wish I rode the X2000.
BarryManilowFan4eva 2 years ago
this is italian fast train ;-)
/watch?v=98RlLdfWZws
320 Km/h
intersezioni 2 years ago
0:34 : coolest horn ever.
travelsonic 2 years ago 4
you should hear a K5LA
k5lta 2 years ago
where are those trains now?
AmtrakBoys 2 years ago
Pinning your hopes on Barak Obama will be like pinning a note on a baloon. I guarantee those approval numbers will come up as unemployment and inflation goes up. I am a pretty healthy 48, but I seriously doubt I will live to see even one mile of High Speed Rail laid in the US. Obama is going to break this promise like numerous others as the economic realities of his policies set in.
kmillard 2 years ago
What Americans forget seeing sleek shiny European/Asian trains is the good freight system in the U.S.. You've got a 65.6% modal split for Rail in the US, in Europe it's somewhere near 16%. So even railroads in America are all belching black diesel fumes, aging locomotives, rust and clanking metal, environmentraly you're doing better than in Europe where we have a few high tech trains but lots of trucks.
Viruspunktexe 2 years ago
Our freight railroads aren't THAT rusty, old, and run down!! In fact railroads like Union Pacific and CSX have done a great replacing their loco fleets with more fuel-efficient models. The era of Alcos belching black smoke is now reserved for museums and a few excursion operators.
By the way, for the clowns who are panning my last comment and doing your stupid tired "thumbs down" act, please do something constructive like try to disprove even one word of my premise.
kmillard 2 years ago
"Our freight railroads aren't THAT rusty, old, and run down!"
Apart from the arguable disadvantages of Diesel Traction, the U.S. is ahead when it comes to things like automatic couplers, Flashing rear-end devices, and the RFID-Tagging of rolling stock. I'm not quite as sure about whether there is the latest technology in the Locomotives, meaning IGBT converters and asynchronous three-phase motors.
Viruspunktexe 2 years ago
Three-phase traction technology was introduced in the US by Siemens. But you forgot to mention bigger clearances, locomotive standardization, rotary discharge systems, HEP, among others.
American railroads may look ugly, but they have VERY low costs and VERY high reliability.
fgrcl 2 years ago
"bigger clearances, locomotive standardization, rotary discharge systems, HEP"
Rotary discharge is COOL, but we'll not have them in Europe before we have new couplers. It's not only Loco standardization, there's a lot more, isn't there? Bigger clearances are not necessarily a sign of modernity, they lower operating costs but raise Infrastructure costs. Just Google Hitlers Reichsspurbahn for that one. But what is HEP?
Viruspunktexe 2 years ago
HEAD
END
POWER
that is what HEP stands for
F7Aengineer 2 years ago
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Finally Millard, I hope you continue your thinking. It's only going to speed up the demise of the Obama haters. I assume you're repub., but if you're not you might as well be. You keep chosing the Sarah Palins, the C street gang (what a screwed up group-representing "American Values" LMAO), the Limbaughs and Ann Coulters. Even if Obama fails, it looks like repubs are a dying breed. In re Obama, he has a brain. We avoided a repub. caused depression, and economists now say we came damn close.
dsindc 2 years ago
I think much of it is still DC in the U.S.
Obviously the infrastructure quality doesn't need to be that high for the low speeds, so no slab track in the U.S.
The point I was trying to make was that you will have more rust, dirt and noise from Diesel-powered Freight trains than from electric Passenger trains.
Viruspunktexe 2 years ago
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You haven't avoided a thing. Obama's policies continue ri destroy jobs and you exult that that stock market has recovered to 9000 (when it WAS over 14,000 before Reid and Pelosi got ahold of power. I stand by my original premise that Obama's out-of-control spending and socialistic power grab will backfire against high-speed rail. We ARE going to beat this stupid "cap and trade" bill and this even more egregious government takeover of healthcare and Obama will be a lame duck in just 9 months.
kmillard 2 years ago
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By the way, what's this obsession with Sarah Palin anyway???? Did I say one word about Sarah Palin?? No. I said that Obama's OWN policies are going to backfire on him because the principles just don't work. They never have and never will .
BTW... Sarah Palin is and has everything that feminists always said women should be. She's strong, independent, outspoken, AND has power, influence as well as a husband and a family, and for THAT, she gets trashed!!
kmillard 2 years ago
You must be joking. Even conservatives don't agree with you. This from Joseph Lazzaro:
But those few positives in no way blot-out the Bush Administration's many failures: scant job creation, unemployment high and rising, declining real median incomes, record budget deficits, record home foreclosures, a large trade deficit, no energy policy, no health care policy, and increasing poverty rates, among other problems. Add on to the above two other unknowns: two wars.
dsindc 2 years ago
This from the Economist Jan 09 -
"I inherited a recession, Im ending on a recession, he noted at his press conference on Jan 12th. He wasnt asking for pity, only to be judged on what happened in between. Unfortunately, that economic legacy is littered with wasted opportunity, bad judgments and politicised policy. The budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in Americas retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess. "
dsindc 2 years ago
LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u cab go die like i said i do not need crap from u!!!! u r an annoying nerd ok just accept that fact and b done leave me alone ok goodbye go 2 hell
nbtrainlvr94 2 years ago
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Part two
About 80 percent of people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain have a positive view of Mr. Obama, a ratio that declines only slightly, to about 70 percent, in the other two countries surveyed, Britain and the United States. The only politician who comes close is Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who gets a positive rating from two-thirds of those in Continental Europe but from only one-third of Britons and Americans.
dsindc 2 years ago
Mr. Obama should not have been elected to be popular in Europe or wherever. He is elected to act in the best intersts of the United States, or at least, that's what voters EXPECTED him to do.
kmillard 2 years ago
You ask posters to "disprove even one word of my premise". How do we 'disprove' a premise when none really exists? .. You engage in literary masturbation more or less. You throw some pithy line out and hope it feels good e.g. " Pinning your hopes on Barak (sic) Obama will be like pinning a note on a baloon. (sic) That was informative, not to mention written at about a 4th grade level. There is no "premise" in anything you've said. I'd note that this does seem to be the current repub. strategy.
dsindc 2 years ago
The stock market has recovered significantly & nearly all economists now see a conclusion to the recession. What do republicans do? Accuse Obama of being born outside the country. That's not even lame; it's just pathetic. As for your bizarre comments about Obama's popularity abroad, you again squeeze the rep. party line out from between your butt cheeks. "Who cares what the world thinks of us?". Well, we should. Since when is having a president internationally admired NOT in our interest?
dsindc 2 years ago
Look, the "my way or the highway" BS we've suffered from in the last 8 years has been catostrophic. Read Andrew Bacevich, ret. Col, Princeton Ph.D. on his views of Bush's foreighn policy. Read Fareed Zararkia's "The Post American World". The draft dodging neo-cons nearly destroyed our ability to guide or even influence world affairs. Look, you're typical of the repub. party- older, white..& increasingly irrelevant. Demographics look fatal for repubs. Now. think up a real premise.
dsindc 2 years ago
Obama Most Popular Leader, Poll Finds
Published: May 29, 2009
PARIS — President Barack Obama remains by far the most popular world leader among people in major Western nations and is the one political figure on whom people consistently pin their hopes in the economic crisis, according to new polls conducted for the International Herald Tribune.
end of part one
dsindc 2 years ago
0:34 Horn is awesome. Aand from 0:36 to 0:40 sounds like a series of freight train horns!
trainboy437 2 years ago
No such horn on the German version. They must have added that for the American version...
Viruspunktexe 2 years ago
What we need now is a system of tracks dedicated to high speed trains, and we need to expand the system beyond the northeast. And we need to start electrifying the system. If we can start working together, we can overcome decades of Republican abuse of our transit system and once again become a major player.
yarmo28 2 years ago 2
Sad, that Amtrak doesn't take the ICE train.
Amtrak and ICE , they go very well together!
buressi 2 years ago 4
internationalantifa, thank you for your sentiments. You're far too kind to Bush. He was much more of a bitch of the oil industry. Add to that, the military industrial complex, the drug industry, the wealthiest 2% of the population, the health insurers, etc etc. The list could go on forever. We are returning to sanity. While I live very near the white house, and in a city that voted 92% for Obama, I think the rest of the country is sick of republicans. We're moving in the right direction.
dsindc 2 years ago
Wrong, nobama is just as horrible as bush, we are not returning to sanity
See the obama deception and you'll see why nobama is just as bad as bush, except even worse.
jmjfanss 2 years ago
Can you back your comments up with any facts?
dsindc 2 years ago
Nobama is gonna make even bigger government and more wasteful spending.
jmjfanss 2 years ago
jmjfanss, I'll take that as a no. Investment in infrastructure is needed like never before. First, because we're way behind the industrialized world & it's needed. It's embarrasing. 2nd, jobs are needed. FDR realized this when he began the New Deal. Not only did we build much of the infrastructure we currently use (yes, it's getting old), but FDR made sure social stability was maintained. We survived.
Explain why this is waste. P.S. "Nobama" is really childish.
dsindc 2 years ago
Are you kidding me, nobama is defintely be said now and this is nothing but pork barrel spending and it could hurt the dollar even more, quit printing money, this is all a scam to create the new world order.
and nobama is associate with the council on foreign relations, he's a fraud
the only one you should have voted for is Ron Paul.
END THE FED!
Yes infrastracture is need, but what I Can't stand is pork barrell spending.
too much pork, cut spending overseas and here as well.
jmjfanss 2 years ago
You made a lot more assertions. Why don't YOU back up your comments with facts??? Give Obama another 6 months and he'll have the country sick of him too. And since when did Washington DC NOT support the Democratic candidate with 92% of the vote??
kmillard 2 years ago
Ok, kmillard
May 20,
1) CNN poll, ref. direction of the country - " Sixty-three percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday say they think the policies being proposed by the President would push the nation in the right direction"..
2) Gallup June 2, 09, Overall approval 67%, 32% disapprove,
3) Foreign Affairs - 61% favorable, 34 unfavorable.
But wait !! There is more Kmillard !!
dsindc 2 years ago
nice
timh97sg1 2 years ago
Super film!5*!
ziuru1miechow 2 years ago
I rode the X-2000 when it demonstrated on the Northeast Corridor. The ride was incrediby smooth! Too bad Amtrak went for the lead sled Acelas...very heay and way overpowered for the lenth of the trains they operate.
eastsidewillie 2 years ago
This is what Chrysler, Ford, or GM should have or should be working on.
PeterMayer 2 years ago
get the swedish x2000 engine and tilting car with an ICE cabin car with a tilter...
hansol0801 2 years ago
This are test versions, aren't they? I thought the X2000 only runs in Sweden and the ICE only in and to/from Germany. Or did Amtrak also buy some of these trains? I thought they only run with the Acela Express (like in Microsoft Train Simulator)
railwayfan1988 2 years ago
Yes, test only
e44e33 2 years ago
Wow thats rare. Nice job. Also interesting horn the they have.
TNT314159 2 years ago
the Acela is the TGV version, so in a sense they did buy the TGV. But they didnt articulate the train by sharing the wheelsets, so it defeated the purpose of HSR. I made some blog discussions about it many years back around 2001, but i cant remember why the wheelsets werernt articulated like the TGV. I think it had something to do with US weight standards.
techphy100 2 years ago
sorry to break it to you, but speed isnt everything.
kh2nerd806 2 years ago 2
wow kiwibrittle, youre such a dumbass
kh2nerd806 2 years ago
I have a quick question: wat the x2000 tested after 1993? I though i saw it after 1994 in Washington( i was only 3 then so i really dont know)
kh2nerd806 2 years ago
Why don't you educate yourself before asking stupidass questions.
1) The TGV is TOO WIDE to fit on U.S. tracks
2) The TGV isn't built to U.S.safety specifications, mandated by the federal government.
3) Acela is PLENTY fast and can reach nearly 200mph. That's not the issue. The issue is there are way too many curves on tracks along the NEC to allow TRUE high speed service. Acela is limited 125mph or less because of this.
Neno8403 2 years ago 4
Wow I remember that X2000! Good stuff!
prorobo 2 years ago
Dos trenes fantásticos
dteide 2 years ago
I like how the first train leans through the corners like a motorbike. Looks cool.
soundseeker63 2 years ago
i know! they should have those amtraks in the U.S.A. too!
pjm5678 2 years ago
The Acela does TILT just like the X2000 does.
Neno8403 2 years ago
Acela doesn't tilt as much as X2000 does :D
ILoveHotChics 2 years ago
Yeah, there are some clearance issues on the route, so the tilting on the Acela is reduced from what it could do. In some places, it's disabled entirely.
mulad 1 year ago
where is that train?
nexoone 2 years ago
great Video! I Would Have Picked The German ICE
Metracab123 2 years ago 6
Hell yeah. I took an ICE train from Kaiserslautern to Munich in 2006. My only gripes were that they allowed smoking [of course, it's Germany] and the interior was smaller than the enormous Superliner coach seats I'm used to. It was fast, generally comfortable, quiet and looked great.
Germany1111 2 years ago 3
that was back in the past. smoking is now forbidden in all trains & restaurants.(new law). don't forget the seats have to be a little smaller cause the ICEs are often crwoded as hell here in germany. and they need all space thats available. ;o)
SaGruenwdt 2 years ago
great horn sound
yeehah188 3 years ago
ICE with "Deutsche Bahn" logo looks pretty much better ^^
Troy21071989 3 years ago 8
Damn that thing is fast
BrandonGDOG 3 years ago
fast? thats slow compared what ICE travels here in germany. :o)
SaGruenwdt 2 years ago
Oh i know that lol. For American standards thats fast but Europe its a whole different story
BrandonGDOG 2 years ago
We have a better infrastructure.
internationalantifa 2 years ago
Yes internationalantifa you're right. But we now have a president with a brain. Look for massive improvements.
dsindc 2 years ago
I hope Obama will be smart. I wish it for America. Bush was a bitch of the oil industry.
internationalantifa 2 years ago
THE X2000 is a nice train... i live in sweden
mryandao54 3 years ago
sry accidently pessed enter.. the X2000
mryandao54 3 years ago
0:10 the sound is great... the X2000
mryandao54 3 years ago
The overhead wire in the USA, is about 1 meter higher then in Europe?
Some special pantographs was used for this test, as I have seen.
bogolyzoltan 3 years ago
I think the atitude of the power line is more uneaven. I dont know about the hight in germany, but in sweden its over 6 meters. We have 2 story trains as well as in the US
matsv201 2 years ago
You better watch YOUR attitude before I kick you in your little baby nuts.
nkx1 2 years ago
Dont you like fakts?
matsv201 2 years ago
0:49 super sound
878karlik878 3 years ago
should have taken the german one
TheGondorian 3 years ago 4
I agree
gaycowboy31 3 years ago
the intercity express is awesome
elramoty 3 years ago 4
looks like a roller coaster ride when it turns
psychopagal 3 years ago
If they would have bought the ICE it would have beena great choice. I've travelled in those and trust me they are very very comfortable in both first and second class as well as very high tech.
UFO721 3 years ago 2
why was the DB ICE train in Maryland?
sidewalkpilot 3 years ago
Amtrak was shopping around for new equipment. They also tested an ICE trainset. They wound up having the Acela built instead of buying either one.
e44e33 3 years ago
Well at list is an original train exclusive only to amtrak. That ICE you see there is actually a second generation ICE it,s known as ICE2 there is a third even better called valero or ICE3.
UFO721 3 years ago