The first of the new trainsets were scheduled to go into service in May of 2021. Now, the new Acelas are projected to begin carrying passengers in the second half of 2024.
Amtrak’s next-generation Acela program, already three years behind, risks further delays and higher costs because the manufacturer’s designs have not yet met federal safety standards and each nine-car train set it has produced has defects, according to aTuesday, offered detailed critiques of how Amtrak and its vendor, Alstom, have managed the $2 billion effort to replace the Acela express trains that have run on the Northeast Corridor since 2000.
The report said the manufacturer had submitted 14 different versions of a testing model to the regulatory agency, which rejected them. Alstom has previously said it has found it difficult to properly measure how its newer technology, based on high-speed European trains, would perform on the aging tracks of the corridor.
The delays already are costing Amtrak “millions of dollars” in lost revenue because the trains can carry 378 passengers, compared to 304 on the existing model, the report said. “Further, the reliability of its current aging Acela fleet is declining, causing more on‐time performance delays and forcing the company to modify its Acela timetable,” the report said.How water drains between passenger cars, causing components that hold the cars together to corrode, which poses safety concerns.
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