Yeah looking at the photo and reading the 15k hours in design makes me a little suspicious that the designer wasn’t working very effectively. The final design

Yeah looking at the photo and reading the 15k hours in design makes me a little suspicious that the designer wasn’t working very effectively. The final design looks not better than other high doors trains in Europe. Designer should have just copied one of the existing designs and saves themselves 14999 hours. Here is the Spanish high speed train, put in service in 1992 (30 years ago!), from my untrained eye they look comparable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe_Class_100 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe_Class_100