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9/10/2024
Siemens Mobility will produce high-speed trains at a new manufacturing plant in Horseheads, New York, for the future Brightline West high-speed rail line, the companies and U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced yesterday.
The Horsehead location will become home to a first-of-its-kind facility that will produce the "American Pioneer 220," which will operate on the Brightline West line linking Las Vegas and Southern California, Siemens officials said in a press release. Production is slated to begin in 2026.
“Continuing our more than four-decade legacy of building trains in America, the American Pioneer 220s will be American-made in New York by a team of more than 300 skilled team members," said Siemens Mobility North America CEO Marc Buncher.
When fully operational, the new plant will span nearly 300,000 square feet and create around 300 jobs, including electro-mechanical assemblers, quality management, quality control, industrial production and test engineers, project management, supply chain management and logistics employees.
Earlier this year, Brightline selected Siemens to build the trainsets. And in December 2023, President Joe Biden formally announced a $3 billion grant award to the Nevada Department of Transportation for development of the 218-mile Brightline West route, which will be a fully electric, zero-emission system. The grant was funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act legislation that Biden signed into law in 2021.