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BirdsbirdsBURDS t1_j84cmno wrote

The likely answer is somebody took a budget, took some basic measurements of “train in Spain” and didn’t do the follow up on questions like “what’s the max dimensions” before putting in orders for hardware to a place like Japan or china. The trains are probably really good, but exceed max limits because numskulls would rather lock in contracts without ensuring that they are contracting for goods/services they can actually use, and that meet their requirements. Investors are gonna be pissed, because now more money is gonna be needed and more time to get returns because someone somewhere didn’t do their jobs right.

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blahbleh112233 t1_j851drt wrote

Could also be that they bought the trains for the current tunnel dimensions. Tunnel dimensions change but no one bothers to think about the trains but that box has been checked

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