THE FUTURE OF AMTRAK ($7.3 Billion Deal With Siemens)

Update: this video was made before the recent infrastructure bill was passed, so now that that's been passed, this project probably is funded. I'm not completely sure about that though, because there's basically nowhere where it says specifically where all of the money is going, except for internally at Amtrak.

Also a few corrections:
4:51 - ALC-42Es will not have pantographs, rather drawing electricity from an auxiliary passenger car with a pantograph behind the locomotive.
5:45 - Keystone trains will be 6 car sets, not 5.
6:00 - The Piedmont will not receive new equipment under the base order, although it might if Amtrak takes the option to order more equipment.
7:00 - Definitely the biggest inaccuracy - the tri-powered sets will use a battery car that holds passengers, and these sets will also have cab cars.

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0:43 - $7.3 Billion Siemens and Amtrak deal
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