Alan Ohnsman is a Forbes senior editor who covers cleantech and advanced transportation. He joined Forbes in 2016 and works in Los Angeles. He co-authors the Current Climate newsletter, writes about promising clean energy developments and has covered Tesla since 2006, when he was with Bloomberg News. He has a graduate degree in journalism and a B.
The $60 million central New York facility will supply trains for Brightline West’s high-speed line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles slated to open in 2028. Siemens plans to add a U.S. rail manufacturing facility in central New York to make bullet train s for Brightline West’s railway connecting Las Vegas to Los Angeles, calling it the country’s first such factory dedicated to producing high-speed trains.
While the diesel trains it currently makes for Brightline, Amtrak and Canada’s Via Rail at a plant in Sacramento, California, are push-pull models, “this is a true high-speed train. It's completely powered – like all-wheel drive all the way through, from the engine to the passenger cars,” Marc Buncher, president and CEO of Siemens’s North American mobility unit, told. Additionally, “this is a full wide-body train, meaning that a wheelchair can go up and down the aisle freely.
Both Siemens and Alstom are competing to win a contract to supply bullet trains to California’s High-Speed Rail Authority, which hopes to open its first segment in the early 2030s. If Siemens were to get that contract, the new New York plant could potentially make bullet trains for California as well.
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