Equipment of Amtrak- Horizon
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 7 май 2022
- The 2nd episode in this little series of mine going over the history and specifications of Amtrak's passenger cars, today we go over the Bombardier Horizon Railcar, enjoy.
Inspired by Amtrakguy365's series "Engines of Amtrak"
Links
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon...)
Background Footage: • 1 Hour Compilation Hig...
• Amtrak Midwest hidden ...
Outro: • turretrotatetest on di...
• You Spin Me Round (Lik...
Discord Server: / discord 
Авто/Мото
After my experiences of operating the Talgo equipment, I really love the simplicity and reliability of the Horizon and Amfleet equipment. There has been several occasions where there was an issue with the Talgo equipment that made us late, or had to cancel the train because some dumb thing went wrong with a door or step or something. The horizons are basically a boxcar with seats. They do what they are supposed to do, and if there is an issue my crew can fix it with a sledgehammer. I’m dreading this new Siemens equipment that we are supposed to be getting. Yeah it will be great to have new equipment, but I foresee sitting at the depot for hours because flux capacitor doesn’t work. It’s bad enough dealing with brand new Chargers that constantly break. Now the whole train is going to be broken.
When I travelled from Chicago to Kalamazoo in 2018 I was booked in a Horizon car and the air conditioning didn't work so I spent most of the trip in the café car. I still had to return to my Horizon car before getting out because they only opened one door in Kalamazoo, at a track without a real platform. Bizarre experience for what is supposedly a first world country.
Bombardier didn't build the Comet I; Pullman Standard did (in the early '70s). But Bombardier acquired the IP and had already delivered the Comet II to New Jersey Transit and others starting in 1982. That's what the Horizon is based on. NJT's Comet IIs were refurbished in the early 2000s. They got some mechanical upgrades, the cab cars were de-cabbed, the livery was updated to match the then-fairly-new Comet IV, but the key feature from a passenger perspective was giving them '90s-tacular interiors to match the Comet IV, which now look incredibly dated and are falling apart. I almost would rather have the orange and brown seats, brown carpets, and Arrow III-esque woodgrain wall panels back. Today they exist mostly to be scattered willy-nilly into trains of Comet IVs just to annoy people on the platform when most of the cars in the train have a center door but they find themselves lined up as far from a Comet II's end doors as possible
lit
Overheard:
Amtrak Midwest's forthcoming Great River service (Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities) is expected to operate with Horizon Fleet equipment initially; Amtrak was able to find some such to use for the Great River in the interim pending evaluation of the Siemens Venture trainsets and further receipt of equipment.
I rode a horizon car on Missouri River Runner from Kirkwood to Kansas City a few years ago.
I feel like I never really see Horizon coaches! Having lived in the Northeast my whole life I don't think I've never seen them ever or even knew they existed. Amfleets are just everywhere out here (and for good reason too, they're great)
I think there more of a midwest thing. Chicago etc
Budd don’t break.
Besides supplementing the Amfleet, the Horizon cars were ordered to replace or at least relieve aging Heritage cars. Besides the Chicago hub routes, they've run in California and turned up at times on long distance trains. 8 coaches were fitted with 60 legrest seats to run on the Three Rivers between New York and Chicago. They were later restored to higher capacity seating. Horizon coaches were built with at first 82, then 76 seats, reduced later to 68 seats to allow for ADA. The food service cars have had coach seats, business class seats and all table seating.
If I am being honest one could ask Bombardier to make modifications to the Horizon/Comet coaches in the building process to make newer style cars that feet in with the the streamlined aluminum cars of the past.
Today that's Alstom. Bombardier has sold everything besides business jets.
Good
1:20 Hight 13ft
... is that some new fancy way to spell? haha
He probably remembers height is similar to night so that happened