Amtrak's new Acela trains represent a significant step toward national aspirations for faster and more reliable train service.
. With their aerodynamic white-and-blue exteriors, touchless doors, USB outlets and improved cafe cars, they are an upgrade from the 22-year-old vehicles they will replace.
late this summer inside the 137-year-old shop. Alstom, a French train manufacturer, expanded the complex into a massive operation, so far delivering four train sets that will carry passengers in fall 2023.Modeled after speedy French TGV trains, the new Acela sets are the first to be built under a Federal Railroad Administration rule establishing new safety standards for high-speed trains, with design specifications that allow them to share tracks with slower trains.
Future capital projects such as tunnel and bridge rehabilitations would allow higher speeds in the future, officials said, bringing Amtrak closer to a goal ofcan expect to save a little more than five minutes on a trip from Washington’s Union Station to New York’s Moynihan Train Hall, with similar savings from New York to Boston.
Alstom officials said some of the train’s features will debut in the United States before Europe, including touchless doors and spacious restrooms with a 60-inch diameter turning radius, which exceed accessibility requirements. through the Port of Baltimore. The type of shells being used for the project aren’t produced in the United States, project officials say.
Moving along the production line, crews work on passenger cars, adding windows — larger than those on theto allow more light — before moving to the station where restrooms, the air conditioning system and the roof are mounted. Then crews are ready to install walls and carpet. Alstom says it has built more than 1,000 train cars and overhauled more than 4,300 in Hornell. The company is one of the primary providers of traction motors and hardware required to put trains into motion for New York City Transit. It has overhauled trains for the New York subway and Washington Metro system.
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