So we're basically getting ÖBB Railjet/Brightline intercity service all round the US! Freaking amazing! Amtrak is doing a ton of things right with this!

Not going to lie. The new Seamen trains. Locomotives, Passenger cars and these new push pulls look great. This is really a big step for Amtrak.

Hopefully, this will help expand Amtrak to new routes with the remaining old stock. Amtrak will have enough trains to go to places like Scranton or Columbus/Dayton/Youngstown, Ohio or a Nashville to Memphis route.

The built-in wheelchair lifts and wider doors will make these the most accessible Amtrak cars we have yet seen.

The Airo reminds me of the RailJet. The RailJet has a cab car in the style of the Siemens Taurus, which is used all over Europe. And seeing the cab cars look like the ALC-42(E), kind of reminded me of that.

The real advantage here is the seamless (well I’d like to see it in action first) transition from pantograph to diesel. Not just for eliminating the time between moving around locomotives, but also for allowing more sporadic development of electrification on a given route. Hopefully this will also mean less time taken up for refueling on long distance routes

It’s changes like this that are so important but also hard to get used to. I’ll miss the old Amtrak trains in a bittersweet way.

Yo, person from Cascadia here The fact that we are the first outside of the Northeast to have these new Airo trains is incredible! I fully approve of this and I can't wait to see what the future holds!

The future of Amtrak is coming! Can’t wait to see these new train sets in service in the future.

Personally I’m a fan of almost every change Amtrak is making, just minus the battery cars

Amtrak Cascades omg!!!! 😱

I really hope Amtrak does infrastructure improvements alongside these new fleet improvements. Yes it’s nice to get new trains, but if the routes they’re running on are slow, then it doesn’t make the service better by any means. Amtrak really needs to strive at getting more consistent 79mph and more preferably 100-125mph to really make Amtrak a great regional service. Really hope to see more improvement projects like the LOSSAN Corridor improvement project on more Amtrak lines across the nation. Amtrak could also get good use out of their ACS64s if they were to electrify some more corridors in the future. Although I’m gonna miss the lovely P42s, Amfleets, and ACS64s, I’m glad to see Amtrak is trying to modernize their fleet. I just hope that they are able to go above and beyond by doing more infrastructure improvements alongside these fleet improvements

This trains look sick🤌🤌

And I also think for the overnight Nightowl Amtrak Redeye Trains from Washington DC to Boston might also use the Airo Train, but will have a couple Viewliner Cars at one end of the train, in front of the cab car.

1:11 More Like Siemens Venture DMU Btw I Love The Amtrak Airo I Hope the Piedmont get Some Siemens Venture

Hope the Heartland Flyer extends service to Wichita/Newton with higher frequency between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth using new equipment like this.

drum n bass intro is crazy

I like the subtle amtrak logo stitched into the seats. Very nice modern trains.

The amtrak cascades livery looks sick dude 😎

Finally, we'll have coaches that match the engines pulling them

The Cascades Wrap on the AiroTrain Set just looks awesome, even though I'm from the D.C. area.

I rode the similar version of these in Germany last fall. They (DB) had a coach car, half devoted to bicycles with floor/wall-mounted racks, separated by glass walls/door. It was sharp looking. Would really like to see those on the Midwestern routes. One can dream…

I won't miss the odd shaped and claustrophobic feeling Amfleet cars.

Awesome video! I can't wait to see these trains in action!

They look so cool! The colors majority of dark blue and red looks amazing

I love the new interior of the passenger cars. Hopefully they make it to the midwest Chicago line.

I hopefully that all the old trains will be donated to a museum for all retired locomotives and amfleets

Say what you want about Biden, but the infrastructure bill (which is what’s paying for this) is going to massively improve day to day live in the US

Those are the coolest looking train sets ever, I can't wait to see them in service, Those seats are so amazing

I like the looks and the construction of the new Siemens Chargers. The Long Distance Charger (ALC-42) is especially useful and a plus to AMTRAK.

I absolutely love the way these new sets look.

Amtrak upgrades to European standard. Great news, it was high time.

Wow, technology has came far enough to where the trainset only need a single pantograph 😮💯👏🏿!!

That's nice. Amtrak needs more train cars like these. Cars that also go around its max speed more often too.

Nice to see these new trains will be built in my home state of California. Incredible 😁

Both Atlantic N/E & Pacific N/W corridors are most profits of Amtrak than all of the other US regions.

Looks futuristic and sleek! Love it!

Beautiful and want to live to experience this transformation ⭐️

Those new Amtrak trains are nice and I do think that Amtrak should improve their services on the East Coast of the USA.

I found this to be quite interesting! I'm looking forward to eventually seeing these Airos in service in the mid-2020s! Thanks for the video!

hell fucking yes theyre here omg!

Love these changes! Great work Amtrak and thank you, democratic policy makers, for getting these necessary infrastructure changes pushed through our government!

I like the new trains from Siemens to Amtrak. I have a problem with the battery & diesel combination. MTA Long Island Rail Road did studies with battery powered trains and the results wasn't good both times. The 1st time the LIRR tried with a streetcar and 2nd time with the M7 from Alstom/Bombardier. Amtrak & Siemens should pay attention to the LIRR results. Amtrak and MTA Metro North Rail Road should add AC overhang power & DC 3rd rail & add or reactivate tracks between 34th Penn Station to near by Spuyten Duyvil and other areas that needs electrification here NY.

Lesss goooo seimens!!!

Honestly, I wonder if people will start taking more regional trains in the northeast compared to the Acela with these much more modern looking and (hopefully) reliable trains.

literally drooling 🤤

I love the airo sounds clean

Ontario Northland also just ordered 3 Siemens Charger similar to Via Rail for their restarted Northlander service

They look fantastic

IM so excited for when they enter service. They are very colorful and look really good. They are beautiful😍

Basically the charger but long I’m stoked

Would love to see much more service in the Southeast covering some of the smaller cities like Augusta, Savannah and Macon, Georgia.

Cannot wait for this debut

Great, if only they could reveal new infrastructure improvements, electrification, expanded service, and new routes

Im so happy its on the cascades route, im going to ride once it comes out 😊 Im also a litle sad because the talgos will be gone, then no more talgos in north america. But lets smile because we saw talgos, bye talgos 🥲

Nice work on this video... can't wait until the amfleet cars get retired... they've done their work in reviving a dieing passenger rail network, but it's time. I use NE corridor and Empire service ( along with the long distance services as a treat), and think Siemens is a perfect fit.

Informative video and the intro track is a bop!

This is really great… but in order for railroads to actually increase in terms of quality and speed, you don’t only need new trains, but also new, State owned tracks. I say that and I’m a right winger.

who remembers the F59PHI’s and the AEM7’s bruh.. Not to mention the every other old train that got retired as a wise man said " newer ain’t better "

All they have to do is modernize the tracks and they can travel up to 125 mph, thus making it high speed.

Those sets look awesome!

I see those new Amtrak trains and Amtrak cars are coming along good

Like the dual-mode ALC-42 more than the battery concept for the Northeast Regional. And I hate the current amfleer service, but I’ll miss seeing the cars.

3:10 lol there's no locomotive in that train consists. Maybe Amtrak hinting at a DMU? lol

Well, I can't wait for the new trains to enter service!

This is very beautiful train👍👍👍👍

VERY, VERY GOOD!!!!!!!

These Sets look really good! Greetings from Austrian the home of the Railjet!

wow it's beautiful amtrak airo

Incredible!

Vidio opens whit breakcore/atmospheric drum and bass All aboard

Rest in peace (1994-2020) 😢🥺 Talgo 6

It was about time, to be able to compete with the European trains, good for Amtrak.

You should have placed new Amtrak train images of the Pacific NW leftside and Atlantic NE rightside to represent on its regional coasts.

PNW corridor should have electrify locomotives: PTL; SEA; V/C .

Interesting to read the comments. As someone from Europe who's very familiar with Siemens trains and who loves the design of the big traditional Amtrak locomotives........I think these new Siemens trains look rather bland and boring. Sorry!

that drum and bass intro >

Wow.. Nice! Hope indian railways makes such trains in near future..!

I am a fan of these train cars and I do think they would be a step up from the venture cars in the Midwest, the issue I have is the speed. These cars are rated up to 125 mph and will be on NE Regionals and a few other services. What Amtrak should do in my opinion is save the money and offer coach seating on the new Acela trains. The new Acela sets can accommodate 3 extra coaches so they can easily rearrange the class seating. Or they can offer a complete coach class Acela train with Northeast Regional type fares like France & Spain's OUIGO service. This would eliminate any NE Regional service between WAS-BOS. I only say this because at the end of the day, why should I be paying less for a slower service? It kills me the Acela is "business" oriented train and not a family affordable train. I know the regional is like 30 minutes slower than the Acela now but with future upgrades its going to be a gamechanger. I believe everyone should be able to enjoy a ride at high speeds. Maybe this would allow Amtrak to electrify to Richmond and Springfield and they can use these Airo cars south of Richmond and other services that could use them in the future. That's just me, what do you think?

Finally they are getting there with Europeans trains

This is good but now there are modern trains with outdated rails. Furthermore, Amtrak will never prosper by sharing tracks with freight. Americans need to upscale like China if we want to move into the 21st century.

Railjet coaches and Vectron locomotives in USA version, the european RailJet/CitiJet in diesel version.

I really hope Amtrak is up on their maintainance game once the new trains go into service. Because the quality is siemens products is poor to say the least. From what i could gather it seems to be based on the Railjet platfrom which gets used here in austria, and as someone who has to endure them daily let me say its not a comfotable ride at all. So lets hope you get an improved ride quality once they are finished. And lets hope they dont break down as often :D

liking the breakcore intro

Was waiting for a video from you bro😃👍

About EFFIN time

hopefully they one day find a way to electrify more, but outside the NEC they are basically at the whims of whatever a freight railroad considers good infrastructure.

Cap me on this, the Amtrak Golden Age

These look great, but as always, Amtrak will be limited by the track that they run on. That holds true for home tracks like on NEC where they own or control big chunks of it as well as everywhere else where they are on a host railroad's tracks. Until there is more 110mph+ track (FRA class 7 or better) the promise of fast trains will just be a promise. Even just getting longer stretches of class 6 track and more double tracking along certain corridors would be a great boon. In summary, it doesn't matter how great new trains are if they don't have great track to run on.

that intro sequence was hard

Amtrak fleet modernization, CP-KCS merger!

Love trains the more the better

Looks good 😊 somehow it will reduce the need for domestic flights for medium haul travel

This new alro train are super cool 😊

I'll be honest, I'm not too thrilled about these sets. They are modern, and the interiors definitely seem to be a step up from the current Amfleets and Horizons, but there's just a few little things that shift to fundamental problems. I think my biggest problem is their use on the Cascades route. Even with the Point Defiants Bypass, using these large trainsets just feels like a step backwards compared to the previous Talgo sets. Amtrak hasn't announced any plans to upgrade the stations, so boarding the Airos seems like it will take longer. Also, the Talgo's inherently have better speed capabilities, being articulated, passively tilted, and just lower center of gravity The Pantograph and Battery sets seem like a weird choice as well. The Battery ones seem like a new iteration of making sure locomotives don't make pollute in New York City limits. A good idea in concept, but dedicating an entire car for this purpose feels unnecessary, even if the trailer has passenger accomodation. There's already 3rd rail in place to use, and Dual-Mode locomotives. Considering both Metro North and LIRR already talked about wanting dual-mode Chargers, why hasn't Amtrak? As for the Pantograph ones...those don't make sense to me, and the more I think about it, I feel like they chose the opposite solution to this problem. Think about it, the Airos are Regional trainsets. Pretty much every Regional service running on the NEC is running under the wires for most of the trip. Most of them don't leave the wires at all. The Sprinters are _right there_, are nearly twice as powerful as a Charger, and Siemens is still building them. So I propose, instead of a pantograph trailer for the Chargers, why not make a diesel trailer for the Sprinters? They'll run like normal for the regular Noretheast Regional and Keystone trains, and for other trains like the Pennsylvanian, Virginia, and Springfield services, they can use diesel power for the "last mile"

ooo nice

Does that mean that they will put down the track able to cope with a higher speed.

hope to see a giant improvement for US rail infrastructure . for instance, from DC to Boston, Acela takes 7 hours to finish 457 miles trip, quite hard to image.....🤔

These trains look sharp! I'll miss the Amcans but an equipment update is long overdue. I respectfully disagree with your comment a 4:34. I've always felt that the front end nose and headlight style of the earlier Chargers were unattractive. The updated version looks sleeker.

The pantograph cars seem odd. Over here in the UK we have THREE different class of bimode locos (in service/on order) that can do diesel/OHLE or battery from the Euro Dual family. Surprised Stadler didn't offer a 'Made in America' version with no need for the limited passenger capacity in that pantograph coach.