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Posted by WillD on Wed Aug 6 17:37:41 2008, in response to Re: R179 Specs, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Wed Aug 6 17:07:07 2008. Check out the door, it says "Amtrak" on it. We tested the Flexliner in 1997 and the crews loved them. The DSB Flexliners go through far more stress than any US railcar ever does. Every day at least four are loaded onto ferries and subjected to salt spray and the flexing of the ferry deck below their wheels. At least 20 SJ and DSB cars roll across the Oresund Bridge every day, sometimes in weather that might cause some US transit systems to shut down, and you can bet there's salt spray there. The Danish branch lines into the northern and western part of the country aren't exactly a walk in the park either, they're the sort of lines we'd have abandoned decades ago.And who the hell cares if you consider it ugly? What exactly is intrinsically beautiful or aesthetically pleasing about the Arrow III, the R32, or the PATH K-car? In the end it's a box with wheels that moves people from point A to point B. The Flexliner just happens to have a unique feature which enables two trainsets to be joined seamlessly without sacrificing any operational capability. But hey, if you despise them so, you might as well stay away from Copenhagen, between the DSB EC trains and the Oresund trains there's always at least one Flexliner somewhere around the main train station:  
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