All Aboard Florida has awarded Siemens the rolling stock contract as part of a project to build a 235-mile rail corridor between Miami and Orlando.
Siemens will initially supply five trainsets, consisting two dual-mode locomotives and four cars, for the Miami-West Palm Beach section of the route.
The trains will be built in Sacramento and maintained at depots inWest Palm Beach and Orlando International Airport.
Subject to additional funding, All Aboard Florida will extend its five-car trains to seven cars and purchase a further five trainsets to serve the second half of the route between West Palm Beach and Orlando.
Michael Cahill, president of Siemens’ Rail Systems Division in the US, said: “This is an exciting time for rail in America.
“Intercity rail is an important lever to improve existing infrastructure challenges and bolster city and state economies, clearly something that All Aboard Florida will succeed at doing.”
These All Aboard Florida higher-speed express trains are expected to travel at speeds up to 79 mph from Miami north to West Palm Beach, up to 110 mph from West Palm Beach north to Cocoa Beach, and up to 125 mph whilst running parallel to the S.R. 528 Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway from Cocoa Beach west into Orlando International Airport. End-to-end travel time from Miami to Orlando International Airport is projected to be three hours.
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Good news for Florida, FEC better be ready for this, i wonder if they will be Amtrak trains.
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