{"id":541,"date":"2011-01-11T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/solidworks-helps-amtrak-keep-rolling"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:07:47","slug":"solidworks-helps-amtrak-keep-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/01\/solidworks-helps-amtrak-keep-rolling.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks helps Amtrak keep rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re as high tech as the airlines, and often faster point to point, but there\u2019s room to breathe and no one gets stuck with a middle seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So says <a href=\"www.amtrak.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amtrak<\/a>&#39;s Bruce Hoffman, manager of document control for the national rail provider&#39;s rolling stock engineering group.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak uses SolidWorks software to help refurbish all of its rail cars from the wheels up, updating compartments that in some cases can be 50 or 60 years old. But you\u2019d never know they&#39;re that age. They offer low-energy LED lighting systems, contemporary detail, integrated recycling bins, and overhead luggage pods. In case you haven&#39;t had the pleasure of traveling Amtrak recently, some SolidWorks models:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795d3a970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Upper &amp; lower levels\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e1795d3a970b image-full\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795d3a970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Upper &amp; lower levels\" width=\"504\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20148c782e3e4970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Upper level 2\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20148c782e3e4970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20148c782e3e4970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Upper level 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f1e970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Upper level 3\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f1e970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f1e970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Upper level 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f77970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Upper level 4\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f77970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e20147e1795f77970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Upper level 4\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info in today&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/news\/167_10802_ENU_HTML.htm\" target=\"_self\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re as high tech as the airlines, and often faster point to point, but there\u2019s room to breathe and no one gets stuck with a middle seat.\u201d So says Amtrak&#39;s Bruce Hoffman, manager of document control for the national rail<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/01\/solidworks-helps-amtrak-keep-rolling.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[451,19],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-design","tag-cad","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}