From: ahk@chinet.com

Glen Labah  wrote:

>About two years ago I attended a SoundTransit meeting where the expense
>of track inspection came up, and one of the contractors said the
>cheapest way of doing the regular track inspection was, rather than have
>a special track inspection car, to simply put the required equipment on
>some of the cars already operating in regular service.  They said they
>were already doing this on a few other commuter railroads.

You can install some equipment to find some defects, but you can't
install all the equipment found on a track geometry car and still have
much capacity left in your passenger coach. Aren't the guys inspecting
tracks from hy-railers still going to have to ride along with the
equipment anyway?

Seems to me tha there won't be a labor savings, then, just saving an
extra track slot that you'd have to give the hy-rail vehicle.

Can they "hear" the track condition from inside a passenger coach as
they can in a hy-rail? If they find something suspicious, are they going
to be able to halt the passenger train? Will the train have to run at
slower than timetable speed while testing is underway?

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