The first SunRail car is expected to arrive in Sanford in August once it departs the New York plant where it was assembled,the Orlando Sentinel reports.
The rail car will be unveiled by Central Florida transportation officials along with SunRail’s new dispatch and control center.
The cab car — which allows an engineer to control the train from the rear — is the first of eight others on order, plus five regular coaches. They are being built by Bombardier in Thunder Bay, Ontario, then shipped to Plattsburgh, N.Y., where they are put together. The contract is worth $41 million, the Sentinel reports.
Seven locomotives also are being built by Boise, Idaho-based MotivePower for $17.5 million. They should start arriving in October.
The first phase of the $1.3 billion, 61-mile SunRail project — which runs 31 miles from DeBary in Volusia County to Sand Lake Road in Orange County — will open in 2014.
