07-27-2011, 10:50 PM
Looking good Jon, I think it is a good idea to have one or two 'clean' cars in the fleet. And as you said, it probably gets tagged with graffiti within weeks of service. I was just driving past a yard near Amsterdam two days ago (I was in the Netherlands for work), and saw one of the new high speed passenger trains parked up. These trains haven't even entered service yet, they're still being delivered and tested for the new highspeed link between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a branch off to Brussels. Several of the carriages of this train were covered in man high graffiti almost their entire length...
I have to say, these new trains deserve it, as who ever the designer was,must have spent too much time in one of amsterdam's coffee shop, they are UGLY, and that's not an understatement. Here's a link to a picture of one of them while being tested, passing a regular station on regular track here, yuck.... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fyra_Vught.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fyra_Vught.jpg</a><!-- m -->
I have to say, these new trains deserve it, as who ever the designer was,must have spent too much time in one of amsterdam's coffee shop, they are UGLY, and that's not an understatement. Here's a link to a picture of one of them while being tested, passing a regular station on regular track here, yuck.... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fyra_Vught.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fyra_Vught.jpg</a><!-- m -->
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