New trainset delivered to maintenance facility near Orlando airport
A CSX locomotive leads a new Brightline trainset into the passenger operator’s Orlando maintenance facility, in a capture from a video. Brightline
ORLANDO, Fla. — A Brightline train has arrived in Orlando for the first time.
The new “Bright Blue 2” trainset was delivered to the passenger operator’s Vehicle Maintenance Facility, nearing completion. The facility is near Orlando International Airport, the northern terminus for the extension of service planned in 2023.
“To see these trains begin to arrive is just so exciting,” said Michael Cegelis, Brightline executive vice president, development and construction. “It spurs us on through that last 30% of construction we have to complete.”
Eventually, there will be 10 of the trainsets built at Siemens’ Sacramento, Calif., factory operating between Orlando and Miami.
The Bright Blue 2 trainset is parked outside the Vehicle Maintenance Facility in Orlando. Brightline.A little more than two years before the arrival of the first train, this was the site of the Vehicle Maintenance Facility. On Jan. 31, 2020, field engineer Alexandra Corzine explains how “90,000 cubic yards of subsurface muck” on water-laden, unstable ground had to be replaced before Brightline could start building the structure. Bob JohnstonShare this article
