News photo: New Brightline equipment en route to Florida

News photo: New Brightline equipment en route to Florida

By Trains Staff | October 11, 2021

| Last updated on April 6, 2024


New trainsets will be used for passenger service's expansion to Orlando

Aerial view of passenger equipment being pulled by freight locomotive
A new Brightline trainset passes through Hopkinsville, Ky., on Oct. 8, 2021. Jim Pearson

HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. — Brightline’s newest equipment is making its way to Florida. On Friday, Oct. 8, Union Pacific ET44AH No. 2603 leads a new trainset, operating as CSX train CSX W989 on the Henderson Subdivision at CSX Casky yard in Hopkinsville, Ky. The new equipment — to be used as service is expanded to Orlando, Fla. — is en route from Sacramento, Calif., where was recently shown to reporters at the Siemens plant [see “Brightline, Siemens Mobility show off newest trainsets …,” Trains News Wire, Sept. 28, 2021]. — Jim Pearson

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