More like the filmer is friendlier

I think it’s 135 for the Acela through Princeton.

With a nice snow Ecco

The Acela can cap out at 160 mph. The Amtrak and the Maryland MARC trains cap out at 125 mph. The NJ transit can cap out at 100 mph at least.

@@Waltjoh100 Acela is not going 160 anywhere in revenue service yet. Just 150.

Holy smokes. There was. Good eye

One panto is for scraping snow/ice and the other is for electricity

One "clears" any ice on the wire. The other one draws the power

It’s so that the first pantograph knocks away any ice on the catenary and the second picks up power.

I’d assume it had something to do with the icy weather. High speed trains can get a loss of power up here in the north sometimes during extreme cold, so it just makes it a lot easier on the drivers.

From what I’ve heard from my friend studying the NORAC manual, one pantograph is used to de-ice the catenary while the other pantograph powers the train

It’s so that the first pantograph knocks away any ice on the catenary and the second picks up power.

Those r actually amfleet passenger cars

The Sprinters with the Amfleets can do 125, the old Acelas can do 150, the new Acelas can do 165 (but will be able to do 187 with track upgrades), and the Sprinters with the Viewliners (sleepers with two sets of windows) and the Amfleets can only do 110.

@@tealmer3528 I've seen Crescents doing 125

It’s probably to scrap the ice off while the other one collects power

Yes there high speed trains

No, most of them were just regular Amtrak trains bypassing at high speed

*high speed trains*. USA is a small country so faster trains than 200 km/h would not make any sense.

@@strobi0001 What??? "USA is a small country" It's the third largest nation by land in the world, and within those top three by far the most populous.

​@@strobi0001Small country? You floundering bafoon, some states here are bigger than some countries

One pantograph is to remove the ice from the wire and the second one is to collect the power

Freezing temperature protocol, so one blade can scrape off ice while the other actually picks up the current.

It’s so that the first pantograph knocks away any ice on the catenary and the second picks up power.

I can imagine they have a better electric connection to the catenary when it has some ice built up

If I remember correctly, its to help knock any ice or snow off before the rear one

Thin ice on contact wire, that prevents reliable current collection and leads to arcing between pantograph's contact shoe and contact wire. This greatly increases shoe and wire wear, and can cause a contact wire cutting with stopping srrvice for an hour and more. PRR had "Double pantograph" order for this weather. First pantograph breakes and cleans ice for better current collection by second photograph. Acela wins with its four(!!!) raised pantographs for one (train's onboard) 12 kV primary power circuit.

It’s so that the first pantograph knocks away any ice on the catenary and the second picks up power.

Maybe on that acs 64 has so much snow that's why there's 2 pentographs

My guess is that the snow makes it harder for the pantographs to connect so they put both up

lol jeez, I know we have our issues but we aren't the 3rd world shithole everyone in Europe thinks we are! 😎

Um we do have trains here too just not everywhere

I rode behind it on New Years Day on the NB Carolinian. DC-NY in under 3 hours!

it's to clear ice off of the catenary. the front one clears while the rear functions as normal

I wonder this. Maybe it's cheaper

They aren't light rail. They are electric multiple units (EMUs) called Silverliners that were built in the mid 1960s. I guess the narrow oval windows were just the style back then.

I believe it’s because when these trains were built in the ‘70s, people throwing rocks at train windows was a big problem. That’s why these trains, along with the old Amfleet cars, have such small windows.

Not sure what you mean by light rail, the design of that particular train just has smaller windows. It’s not a light rail train tho.

Not light rail, but also because when they were built in the '70s rock throwing was an issue.

If your talking about the njt emu then it was builted in the 70s, shit has lot of problems

That was the entire point of the livery. It was a promotional partnership that ran for about 6 months or so.

@FanRailer ohh ok. I just thought that dovetail made a special livery for just in game. That's cool to see in real life.

Both countries subsidize their rail systems. The US government doesn't invest in rail as much as other countries like China and Japan do.