(Bloomberg):German engineering giant Siemens is investing $60 million to build a unionized factory in northwestern New York to build North American-designed high-speed rail cars.
On the 9th, Siemens announced that it will manufacture the American Pioneer 220, a rail car capable of traveling at a maximum speed of over 322 kilometers per hour, at its Horseheads plant in New York. Production is scheduled to begin in 2026. Once fully operational, the plant will employ approximately 300 people.
Siemens has been contracted for a high-speed rail project being carried out by the private company Brightline, and will start production for the project, which will link Las Vegas with Southern California in two hours.
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“High-speed rail travelling through America is no longer a dream but a reality,” Mark Buncher, CEO of Siemens’ North American mobility business, said in a statement.
Siemens has expanded its U.S. manufacturing footprint in recent years, breaking ground last year on another $220 million rail-car factory in Lexington, North Carolina, and spending $150 million on a power-infrastructure plant in Fort Worth, Texas.
Original title: New York to Get Factory to Build 200 Mile-an-Hour Siemens Trains (excerpt)
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