"SEPTA's Regional Rail Ridership has grown by more than 50 percent over the last 15 years," said SEPTA General Manager Jeffrey D. Knueppel. "The addition of these new Siemens ACS-64 locomotives is ...

On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Amtrak and Siemens marked completion of the 70th and final Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) electric locomotive at the Siemens rail manufacturing hub in Sacramento, Calif., ...

The Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, Rail Systems Division has begun its 15-year technical support and spare parts supply agreement with Amtrak for the new ACS-64 electric locomotives in ...

The locomotive was manufactured at Siemens’ site in Sacramento, California, and is expected to enhance the SEPTA Regional Rail service’s reliability, capacity and availability. Siemens will use the ...

The trains have traveled more than 220 million ... The AEM-7s are being replaced by new, more advanced next-generation ACS-64 electric locomotives. Amtrak has ordered 70 ACS-64 locomotives ...

Sophie Reid climbs aboard one of Amtrak’s new ACS-64 City Sprinters to uncover the science behind ... They are part of the biggest purchase of electric trains since World War II. Gagarin explains what ...

The change covers only ACS-64 locomotives that power all Northeast regional and long-distance trains between Washington and Boston, as well as Keystone Service between New York, Philadelphia and ...

Dovetail Games, the studio behind the critically acclaimed Train Sim World 2 ... Under the agreement, Amtrak will wrap one of their ACS-64 electric locomotives in a custom version of the historic ...