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Caltrain displays one of its new electric trains at the San Carlos Caltrain Station
Caltrain riders may start riding new electric trains within a couple weeks, as the agency begins ramping up its new fleet ahead of its main debut in September.
The new electric train service has been a yearslong effort that will be fully rolled out by the end of next month, when the current diesel trains will be replaced with fully electric trains with faster speeds and more frequent service.
The rail system, which opened during the 19th century, remains the oldest continually operating railroad west of the Mississippi River. And now it’s finalizing another significant undertaking by becoming the first such system in the country to transition from a diesel railway to an electrified system in at least three decades.
Caltrain Chief of Staff Casey Fromson said riders may start boarding the electric trains as early as mid-August.
“We will have the combination of electric trains with diesel trains, and they will be running on our current schedule we have now. That will help the crew and adaptation for everyone and make sure we get out all those kinks,” Fromson said. “[By Sept. 21], we will have all our diesel trains off our corridor, between San Francisco and San Jose, and we’ll be running a fully electrified fleet, and that is also when we will turn on the new schedule.”
Currently, some stations only operate once every hour, but the efficiency of the new trains will allow for half-hour service or less, translating to at least 20% more stops at each station. Fromson added that other amenities, including on-board digital trip information and WiFi will also improve rider experiences.
“Your whole experience is going to be improved, everything from those digital signs to how the automated sounds will be,” Fromson said. “There are much more visual cues on the outside of the trains, on the front of the trains, on the side of the train. There’s a lot of different ways that people are going to know where they are going.”
The new fleet comes at a good time for Caltrain as it aims to boost ridership, which has struggled to recover since the onset of COVID-19. While ridership has steadily increased over the last few years — there was a nearly 20% year-over-year increase between June 2023 and 2024 — recent figures show it is still at about 35 % of pre-pandemic levels. Other large transit services, such as BART and Muni, have recovered to about 44% and 78%, respectively.
The total budget for the project is approximately $2.5 billion.
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CALtrain loses money, yet they somehow have money to invest in exorbitantly priced electric trains. Makes no sense.
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