All Aboard Florida (AAF) station models

[bikkuri bahn]

Videos released earlier this month, of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach locations.

 

Edited July 16, 2015 by bikkuri bahn

[cteno4]

They are focusing on the development a lot! But that's where they can make a profit as a whole, let's just hope the rail service is done well as in the Japanese rail/real estate model!

 

Nicely done models, those cost a bit I bet!

 

Jeff

[Mudkip Orange]

These are actually very simple designs. The Fort Lauderdale and West Palm stops are just slightly larger versions of the 23-200 overhead station kit, while the towers-on-a-podium design planned for Miami doesn't have any structural engineering that wouldn't have been stock standard 50 years ago.

 

I like it.

[toc36]

I posted this link in the Selling Shinkansen topic:

 

http://economics21.org/commentary/private-profitable-high-speed-rail-coming-florida

[bikkuri bahn]

All Aboard Florida reveals trainset designs, new name:

All Aboard Florida, the speedy new passenger-train service scheduled to begin operations between Miami and Orlando in 2017, unveiled some of its new trains Monday, and then promised an immediate upgrade — from eight inches long to about 80 feet.

“I promise you the real thing will be a lot bigger than this,” said All Aboard Florida president Michael Reininger at a press conference where the company released some details about the trains, including the tiny, brightly colored model cars and a name for the service: Brightline.

 

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article43809852.html

 

http://www.allaboardflorida.com/ (this is now the corporate website)

customer-oriented website:

http://www.gobrightline.com/

Edited November 10, 2015 by bikkuri bahn

[Mudkip Orange]

Here's a couple pics of the HO Scale models referenced in the article:

 

 

[bikkuri bahn]

Another view of an earlier version at the Siemens stand at Innotrans 2014:

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/15335777425_fd29e93433_b.jpg

[bikkuri bahn]

Promo video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oDo0IBZY2ME

Edited November 10, 2015 by bikkuri bahn

[kvp]

These trains look like the siemens railjet coaches with single ended diesel versions of the siemens america sprinter locomotives. They could go as fast as 230 km/h but probably won't be allowed to. The paint is nice, bright and highly visible. I like them.