The new acela horn is so bad

The old Acela is legendary

@@RomanoRailfanning fOaMeR!1!1111111 THE NEW ACELA HORN IS GOOD oops caps >:D argue with P00ch13 if you think its bad, you will regret it

@@RomanoRailfanning Agreed. the horns in other countries don't have the same powerful feeling as horns in the US like the legendary k5la and others. The old Acela and P42s are loud and powerful, and the horn lines up with that thinking and that's where a lot of us find trains cool. Sort of how plane spotters like a good n' loud MD-80 -- you can feel the power and it gives you a rush. But the odd thing is, the louder the engine, the less efficient it is. So as trains become more quiet to become more efficient, a lot of us loose out on that powerful feeling when a train goes by. And the European horn sort of embodies that "this is a light-weight efficient train" ... like the 'smart car' mentality of trains. Sort of sad, since I'll really miss those beefy trains Amtrak is retiring. Don't get me wrong, high speed trains like the TGV are really cool -- one of my favorite train rides was on a TGV going 180+ mph, watching the land just glide by -- but there's something cool some of us like about those noisy, "inefficient" trains.

They ahould’ve gotten high acceleration trains instead of high speed, with the low average speed and all the curves of the NEC, would give much better service, something like the Alstom Coradia Stream, a 125mph EMU with S train level acceleration.

@Ignacy Gołębiowski GROSS

@@NortheastCorridorFilms agree

How about the opening harmonica prelude to the song, "Suicide Blonde" from INXS for a train horn ?

Same here, I love the people who get salty lol

Two-tone horn doesn’t sound American

Insufferable

i agree and don't agree at the same time. it's a nice experience to hear a two tone horn from europe but it doesn't sound american

I agree. It doesn’t sound American. EuroTrash yes, American, NO. Everybody be safe.

People need to realize that train horns are used for safety = attention and not meant to sound nice

Ambulance

European horn

The fuel savings aren’t worth the cost and hassle with switching to electrics.

Would you like to pay for their maintenance then?

I wouldn’t mind that. After all my tax dollars are going to a good cause.

@@FanRailer It would be an honor

Sure it can. It’s been done. They have run test trains of the current Acela with 10 cars and typically once a month run it with 7 cars. Adding a coach is not a big. Amtrak simply has no spare coaches to use and the maintenance buildings can’t fit anything larger than 6 coaches in normal service.

lol that's a model X. The Y doesn't have gullwing doors.

@@FanRailer oh, sorry. My friend is wrong then. I had a feeling it was the X but I thought you had the Y for some reason.

gotta whip it in style ;)

thats how you know its the Master of the Northeast Rails

Still testing

They won’t. You’ll have to realign it because they’ll probably cater Europe for that more.

yeah that is how we do it in europe only 1 pantograph

Between 10:30 and 10:51

underrated comment

lmao you missed the person in the car, apparently.

It is european horn

There are no Acela’s with white nose cones. And the incident you are talking about killed 3 people, not one. And all the Acela’s have killed people at least once.

Well this sounded like an european horn

Bruh it’s safe, siren’s don’t sound like that in the US

It passed tests, so it's perfectly safe. Considering european trains have them and they're safe, there's nothing to worry about

found the clueless guy, the avelia liberty is literlly made by alsthom which is obviously a french company you twit