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2016-12-15 - [US] Siemens releases first Brightline trainset from Sacramento

Home News Archive 2016-12-15 - [US] Siemens releases first Brightline trainset from Sacramento

Siemens employees celebrate as the first Brightline trainset is completed. Picture by Brightline / All Aboard Florida.


GoBrightline informs: The first Siemens-built Brightline trainset, comprised of two locomotives and four coaches adorned in Brightline Blue, is complete and has left the company’s manufacturing hub in Sacramento, California. Prior to its departure, hundreds of Siemens employees who worked on the trainset gathered alongside to commemorate the completion and say “bon voyage.”



“Having our first Brightline trainset completed and on its way to Florida is a major accomplishment and brings us one step closer to the introduction of our innovative new train service,” said Michael Reininger, president of Brightline. “Once in Florida, our operations team will begin the required testing as we ready to launch Brightline between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach next summer.”


The first trainset is approximately 489 feet long and is being transported across the country via rail, journeying 3,052 miles from Sacramento to Florida. Construction on the first car shell began in July 2015. Four additional trainsets for Brightline’s first phase are being built at Siemens. Brightline expects delivery of these additional trainsets in four additional bright hues: pink, red, orange and green by the end of March.


Bound for Florida, the first Brightline train is ready to depart Sacramento. Picture by Brightline / All Aboard Florida.


Brightline’s trains are built as integrated trainsets, comprised of two diesel-electric locomotives (MLD: Siemens Charger) and four high quality stainless steel coaches (MLD: type Viaggio Comfort USA). These clean diesel-electric locomotives will meet the highest emissions standards set by the federal government. The integration improves ride quality and makes for a much quieter ride. There is a bright yellow locomotive on each end, for high reliability and redundancy.


Brightline plans to begin express intercity services between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in mid-2017.


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