The $250 million, nearly 100,000-square-foot building can house an entire Cascades Airo trainset.
Amtrak cut the ribbon on its $250 million Seattle maintenance facility on Oct. 23. The rail company designed the facility for its Airo trainsets, which carry passengers on the Amtrak Cascades route, and finished it on time and $50 million below budget.
“The building covers nearly 100,000 square feet and is about 700 feet long, enough to hold a complete Cascades Airo trainset. Inside, three tracks let crews inspect, service and carry out heavy maintenance on a whole trainset in one place. Amtrak describes it as its first maintenance facility of this kind,” Oleksandr Batrak writes for Railway Supply.
The Seattle facility is the first of six maintenance buildings that Amtrak is upgrading for the Airo fleet. Laura Mason, Amtrak’s executive vice president of capital delivery, said that the ability to maintain an entire Airo trainset at once in the larger facilities would make repairs more efficient.
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