A $300 million project in the SODO neighborhood is more than half complete, with the new Airo fleet expected to launch on the Cascades route by late summer.
SEATTLE — Amtrak is constructing a new train maintenance facility in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood, positioning the Pacific Northwest at the center of a nationwide modernization effort. The project, backed by $300 million in federal funds, is more than 50 percent complete and on schedule to open this fall.
The facility, located in the King Street Yard, is being built to service Amtrak’s next-generation Airo fleet which is a new class of trainsets that will replace aging equipment across
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