page_title: List of Amtrak rolling stock
section_title: Future trainsets
hierarchical_section_title: List of Amtrak rolling stock / Current / Trainsets / Future trainsets
caption_attribution_description: English: A new Siemens Venture railcar manufactured for Amtrak California's San Joaquins train service.
context_page_description: Amtrak operates a fleet of passenger train rolling stock consisting of predominantly custom-built equipment. The active fleet includes some 240 road diesel locomotives, 66 electric locomotives, 1,408 passenger cars and 20 Acela Express high-speed trainsets. Additionally, the ownership seven Talgo trainsets and 49 Surfliner railcars are split between Amtrak and state partners; with Amtrak owning the equivalent of two Talgo trainsets and 39 Surfliner cars. Amtrak also operates 196 locomotives and railcars owned wholly by state partners.
context_section_description: On January 17, 2013, Amtrak announced that it has entered a collaboration with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to draft up specifications for the standard high speed train set to be used along the Northeast Corridor and replace the original Acela train sets. The joint order was planned to be for 62 trainsets, with 32 earmarked for the NEC, and having a capacity of 400-600 people. In June 2014, plans for the joint order were abandoned; according to Amtrak, the two companies' requirements were too different to make a joint order economically and operationally feasible. In September 2015, Amtrak selected Alstom as the builder of 28 Acela replacement trainsets and entered into exclusive negotiations with the company, expected to yield a firm contract worth roughly $2.5 billion by the end of the year.
  In August 2016, Amtrak approved the contract with Alstom to make 28 new Avelia Liberty train sets to replace the Acela on the Northeast Corridor with delivery by 2021. The new sets will be capable of running at speeds of up to 186 mph but will initially be limited to 160 mph. Amtrak will be upgrading tracks along the corridor to allow these sets to run at that speed. The new trainsets will have more passenger seating and improved interior amenities as compared to the current Acela equipment.
  Two additional Talgo 8 trainsets were bought for use in Wisconsin but never operated. After the 2017 Washington train derailment, Amtrak sought to lease the trainsets for the Cascades.
caption: A Siemens Venture car sits outside the Siemens Mobility Factory in Florin, CA. This car is expected to go into service on the Amtrak San Joaquins service in 2020.
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