Ah, eastern bloc safety engineering... witness the Fiat 125,
That was actually a Fiat IMHO, not Lada. Lada is called now "Chevy" :unsure:
FSO in Poland until the nineties...
It's clearly an M62, just the Polish M62 has different pain scheme. I like the 1950-s/1960-s "showelnose" TZ-3 diesel' look
better but ask 10 people you will get 20 answers what looks "cool".
But anyway, IMHO this shows, an argument "that communist cr@p is a junk anywy" is completely wrong. The cars in question are following the streamliner design even today and even with adaptations and changes they prove, the designers in the U.S. did a terrific work in 1930-s. Essentially it is even pretty unpatriotic (and stupid, too) to turn the back to Russian and Chinese car manufacturers: these are essentially re-incarnation of great streamliners.
Closing the Bombardier factory at Ammendorf, Germany a few years ago (+letting so many people go) was an other dumb move to say the least: Amendorf was contracted to make these wide-body cars.
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Addition: Helmut just provided a pointer at an Austrian forum to his pix on www.railfaneurope.net
Looking at couch pix I cannot chase away the tought - it's 1930-s America today. Hope, it will be "back to the future" one day. These are corrugated-side steel cars, not lightweight thingies.
Am I crazy or it's resembling the Amtrak-seat?
This is included in the ticket price (bi-lingual menu), I feel I have to visit kitchen now...My vote is No.2
does not look very good. The 1st car is a corrugated-side streamliner made in Germany (Ammendorf) to U.S. blueprints for Soviet/Chinese market. 2nd car is an EMU made in Riga.
