SEPTA plans to spend as much as $154 million to buy 18
new regional rail locomotives, which the Philadelphia Inquirer says is the
biggest railroad acquisition in a decade.
The SEPTA board is expected to approve the purchase
Thursday and the electric locomotives will be delivered in 2018 — replacing
eight aging engines operating on the Lansdale-Doylestown, Paoli-Thorndale,
Trenton, and Wilmington-Newark lines, and add capacity to other regional lines.
The Inquirer said the purchase is part of a larger plan.
The new SEPTA locomotives are part of the transit
authority’s increased spending on new vehicles and major construction enabled
by a boost in state transportation funding in 2013.
Your commute on SEPTA could get better down the road
SEPTA plans to spend $535 million in the fiscal year that
starts July 1 to buy new vehicles, replace and repair rail bridges, upgrade
train stations, and begin overhauling its Center City subway concourse.
In addition to the new locomotives, SEPTA will buy 525
hybrid buses over five years. And it will soon begin the process of procuring
45 bi-level railcars to increase capacity on the Regional Rail lines.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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