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Do modern US rolling stock such as the Amfleets, Superliners, Talgos and Acela Express still have seats that can be rotated to always face the direction of travel? Or did that go out of fashion together with the "old-fashioned" passenger cars?
Leiv Eiriksson was first - Christoffer Columbus used a Viking map!
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Yeah, they still have rotatable seats in Superliners, Amfleets, Commuter, ect. No reason not to.
Glenn D
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-20-04 AT 05:06 PM (EST)
"Yeah, they still have rotatable seats in Superliners, Amfleets, Commuter, ect. No reason not to."Ah! But there is a reason not to. Money. Fortunately, it hasn't come to that.
Hawk
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> Money.Actually, its probably cheaper to just leave the existing designs - which are rotatable - than to re-design new seats that aren't.----------- BUZZ -----------
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It came to that in Norway though.. :-/
Now, only long-distance trains have rotating seats here, on regional/Intercity trains, the rotating mechanism has been disabled, so that the seats are now fixed in one direction. Apparently this was done partially to save time at terminal stations, partially to save on maintenance cost
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