An ugly duckling
Picture of the day
An ugly duckling
From one of the most pleasing front ends in rail equipment design to one of the ugliest. The cab car of the Amtrak Cascades trains is a compromise to crew safety and operation but definitely not pleasing to the eye. But these train sets are interesting in other ways as well as they feature Talgo pendular design cars with single wheel sets, each wheel mounted independently. The cars are rather short and the business coach I rode to Seattle (and the next day further North to Vancouver, BC) are pretty comfortable. Pretty much all seats face in forward moving direction and swivel around at the final destination for the return trip.