Outside the obvious issue in this article I found the following statement horrendous: > it has to be taken apart, the parts sent to the various manufacturers,

Outside the obvious issue in this article I found the following statement horrendous: > it has to be taken apart, the parts sent to the various manufacturers, checked, sent back, the train put back together again and tested Instead of having one public company mastering the art in its entirety everything is split with contractors. A good example of a successful way to do that (but slowly dying thanks to capitalism) is SNCF operating everything in a massive warehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRH2M2Z-ms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRH2M2Z-ms