<i>Hmm maybe problem is not on french side of locomotive. Could it be that its the Amtrak Maintenance ??</i>
Maybe? *shrug*
<i>Maybe the lacks attitude of workers.</i>
Well, that explains most of Amtrak's state, IMHO. From ops to maintenance to management.
<i>Would you let NASA install bathroom tiles.</i>
Heh. IMHO, the Space Shuttle needs to be flown into a museum and left there. I still don't get the point of making something that spends the bulk of it's flying time outside the atmosphere look like an airplane. Ok, other than the biggest whine of Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts was 'it doesn't have wings!!! Wahhhhhhhhhh'. IMHO, history will look at the Shuttle like automobiles styled like horse buggies - an example of people molding a new technology into a shape they can recognize. Sure a 'capsule' looks weird, sure it works weird. But the fact is - the design worked amazingly well. The shuttle's been an overcomplex money pit with virtually no safety margin - as opposed to the 'complex' (and for the time, it was) Apollo, which was a can with a heat shield that was very conservative despite a much higher re-entry speed.
<i>How bout any Concrete in this country, four components mixed at right amounts but it won't last but a few years ?? there are German bunkers still standing in Europe with no wear but here Cenment fails after 8 years ??? from rainwater.</i>
Bad Q/C. As annoying as roads in the US. Thin strip of asphalt onsquished dirty that gets all chewed up in a few years.
Hey, Hoover Dam is still standing
But they won't give you the nice tour anymore
Just a stupid politically correct 'interpretive center'. I didn't go there to find out how some native American felt about building the dam there, I went there to see house sized generators spinning!