Avelia Liberty

The Avelia Liberty.

The Avelia Liberty is a high-speed passenger train built by French manufacturer Alstom. It is related to the TGV and New Pendolino family of high-speed trains, but adapted for the North American railroad standards, including U.S. Federal Railroad Administration crashworthiness standards. Amtrak has ordered 28 trainsets for use on its flagship Acela Express service along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. via New York City and Philadelphia. Amtrak claims the trainsets will "allow for increased service including half-hourly Acela Express service between Washington D.C. and New York City during peak hours and hourly service between New York City and Boston." As of March 2020, one of the trainsets was undergoing testing at the Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Test Center (Transportation Technology Center, Inc.) and construction of the other trainsets was ongoing. Service is expected to start in 2021, with all trainsets in service by 2022. The First Avelia Liberty Set was just created and started test runs. The train appears to also have a European train horn, instead of the usual Nathan K5LA.