1st look inside Brightline's $100 million train maintenance facility in Orlando

It's been a busy few months for Brightline, the Florida-based rail company currently operating high-speed trains between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.

Two new stations — in Aventura and Boca Raton — opened their doors in December 2022, and the company continues to run test trains ahead of the anticipated launch of long-awaited service to Orlando International Airport (MCO) later this year. One of those trains even hit 130 mph along the newly constructed tracks in Central Florida.

Today, it was an entirely different aspect of Brightline's operations that took center stage, as the company welcomed several members of the media to get a peek inside its new $100 million maintenance facility on the grounds of MCO.



Dubbed "Basecamp" (as a reference to the staging area of many high-altitude mountaineering expeditions), the state-of-the-art complex spans 62 acres and features a number of buildings with a whopping 135,000 square feet of space to perform all kinds of repairs and routine servicing of Brightline's vehicles. ..............(more)

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