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the new Avelia Liberty (Acela II)

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Avelia Liberty is a high-speed passenger train built by French manufacturer Alstom. It is related to the Avelia Horizon
and New Pendolino family of high-speed trains, but adapted for North American railroad standards, including
U.S. Federal Railroad Administration crashworthiness standards.

Amtrak has ordered 28 trainsets for use on its flagship Acela Express service along the Northeast Corridor
between Boston and Washington, D.C. via New York City and Philadelphia. Amtrak says that compared to the prior
generation, these trainsets would allow for improved frequency and greater capacity on the Acela Express service.

As of June 2020 two of the trainsets were undergoing testing and construction of the other trainsets was ongoing.
The first trainset is expected to enter revenue service in 2021, with all trainsets in service by 2022.

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Port of Baltimore customer American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier ARC shared these images of its first discharge of the next-generation Amtrak Acela rail car body shells at (Baltimore) Dundalk Marine Terminal. They were shipped by Alstom SA from its French factory and will be hauled to New York to be outfitted.

Sept 12, 2019

American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier ARC

 




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