What might be a bad omen is the Danish IC4. With a little delay, the first was delivered in 2003. Then it was a disaster story, production delays, technical problems, wrong specifications, the trains aren't fully commissioned to this day. They were/are made by Ansaldo-Breda...

The Wiki article is garbled, but I won't fix it today, just briefly: the Bombardier part of the story was the idea to run locomotive-pulled trains as an interim solution, using leased Bombardier TRAXX locos. But the problem wasn't delivery, it was getting permissions for the new TRAXX type to run on both the new line and conventional Belgian and Dutch lines, which would have required too much time.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}