Acela II (Alstom Avelia Liberty): Design, Production, Delivery, Acceptance

Understood.

Night testing on the NEC over the course of the last couple of nights, shot on location between Jersey Av and Holmesburg Junction:
https://youtu.be/v2_VlFYT9d8

Sounds like a M-7 when starting up.figure on a tone change when on 60hz wire,GET RId of that European Horn,please!!!!

That horn may be a unique way to warn persons on the ground or a platform to look out for a HSR train approaching.

KP2021 testing on the night of 9/4/20 between Holmes and Grundy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yzy7nuOhgE

Nice videos. That horn sounds like a demented goose. It definitely is a unique sound.

F40CFan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:09 pm Nice videos. That horn sounds like a demented goose. It definitely is a unique sound.

That type of horn is common in France, and has been for decades.

Where should I be checking regularly for info on the next appearance of the Acela II trainsets in Maryland? I’m interested in trying to get photos or video of line-speed passes on the NEC southwest of Baltimore.

TheOneKEA wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:32 pm Where should I be checking regularly for info on the next appearance of the Acela II trainsets in Maryland? I’m interested in trying to get photos or video of line-speed passes on the NEC southwest of Baltimore.

The train went down to Ivy City the other night for maintenance; should be headed back up to Race Street within the next day or so.

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More testing tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6c9psnnIY

Fan Railer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:16 am ​
More testing tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6c9psnnIY

I'd love to know how much difficulty there was with immunizing the ex-PRR signalling and control systems to protect them from the emissions generated by these new trains. Watching them accelerate slowly to 90mph has me imagining how much EM/RF they could be emitting while doing so.

Maybe not so much a problem as of old, as they take 1000's of little "steps" , rather than big steps more slowly of the older machine. Plus they are tunable , hence them been set up to play music in some cases.

The Avelia Liberty was spotted last night in Penn Station towards GATE interlocking!

Thanks for the great footage Greg!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otHcb_5VTqM

Alright - it's supposed to head north of NYP up to Boston tomorrow on Monday.

I don't currently own a scanner - do you know what time it'll come through CT tomorrow? I heard it was going to be behind 172, but I don't know how accurate that is.