From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Michael Finfer"  wrote in message   
   news:D24Uv.287799$y33.266861@fx28.iad...   
   > On 9/22/2014 10:54 AM, Jishnu Mukerji wrote:   
   >> On 9/21/2014 11:43 PM, zkr123015@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>> So could amtrak return them to Bombardier and say give us Amtrak quality   
   >>> versions of the ALP46a's?   
   >>   
   >> How could Amtrak give you something that they do not themselves have?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > I was on a train last year powered by an HHP-8.  There were intermittent   
   > showers that day, and they were having some kind of problem with the unit   
   > whenever it rained.  We lost 40 minutes between Newark and Washington.   
   >   
   > Michael Finfer   
   > Bridgewater, NJ   
      
   This reminds me of the time when it rained and the train stalled for 3-4   
   hours just outside the Newark station.  They got the high-priority freight   
   off, since the baggage car was in the station, but the rest of us just sat   
   and missed our connections.  Rain seems to kill off those electric engines.   
      
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