NS fans turn up for Crosby's homecoming | SaltWireWASHINGTON - U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak's $2.3 billion plan to replace its high-speed Acela train cars is more than three years behind schedule and faces more likely price hikes and further delays, a government watchdog said on Tuesday.
The Amtrak inspector general in a report on Tuesday said the program faces further delays because the new Amtrak trains have not met Federal Railroad Administration requirements and all of the trainsets produced so far have defects. The Acela, which operates on the Boston to Washington Northeast Corridor, is Amtrak's most profitable business line.
The report said Alstom must still produce a validated computer model of the trainset"that proves the new designs are safe to proceed with required testing" in order to proceed with operational testing and to be able to run new trains at planned faster speeds of 160 miles per hour . Alstom said it has successfully run these trains on a test track at high-speed and on the Northeast Corridor for nearly 70,000 miles. It said planned modifications"along with additional changes that Amtrak requested are in no way in the critical path of completion of this project."
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