{"id":6379,"date":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/2010\/10\/29\/70-new-crash-worthy-locos-for-amtrak-6\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T00:00:00","slug":"70-new-crash-worthy-locos-for-amtrak-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/70-new-crash-worthy-locos-for-amtrak-6\/","title":{"rendered":"70 new crash-worthy locos for Amtrak","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Siemens, an international engineering firm with its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., and plants throughout the U.S., has won a $466 million contract from Amtrak to build 70 Sprinter ACS-64 electric locomotives for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Keystone Corridor.<\/p>\n
Important to train crews, the new locomotives will incorporate the latest crash energy management components, such as \u201cpush-back\u201d couplers to keep the locomotives upright, in-line and on the tracks in the event of a collision, said Amtrak in a press release.<\/p>\n
The new Siemens locomotives are to go into service beginning in February 2013.<\/p>\n
The new locomotives also will have regenerative electrical systems that return power to the grid. They will replace AEM-7 locomotives that are up to 30 years old and have traveled an average of 3.5 million miles each, Amtrak said in a press release.<\/p>\n
Amtrak said the new locomotives will be capable of speeds up to 125-mph on the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and Boston, and 110-mph on the Keystone Corridor west from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, Pa.<\/p>\n
The new locomotives and their components will be built and assembled in Siemens plants in Sacramento, Calif., Norwood, Ohio, and Alpharetta, Ga.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Siemens, an international engineering firm with its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., and plants throughout the U.S., has won a $466 million contract from Amtrak to build 70 Sprinter ACS-64 electric locomotives for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Keystone Corridor. Important to train crews, the new locomotives will incorporate the latest crash energy management components, such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n