{"id":15146,"date":"2025-07-08T21:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15146"},"modified":"2025-07-08T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:30:55","slug":"alstom-to-provide-new-modern-cars-to-new-york-metropolitan-transportation-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15146","title":{"rendered":"Alstom to provide new modern cars to New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Story and image from Alstom<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Hornell, New York, July 7, 2025 <\/strong>\u2013 Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, announced today that it has received a notice of award for a <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">2.3 billion USD contract to manufacture 316 commuter rail cars for Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad, the commuter rail divisions of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The contract includes an option of up to 242 additional cars for a value of up to 1.5 billion USD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The M-9A passenger vehicles will replace 40-year-old M-3 cars, the oldest model operating on the commuter lines, and will offer a quieter, smoother and more reliable ride. The cars will feature USB charging ports, space for wheelchairs and accessible restrooms. Two sets of extra-wide doors on each side of the car will continue to ensure that passengers board and disembark quickly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The contract is expected to create nearly 300 jobs across Alstom\u2019s two production sites in upstate New York, many of which will be filled by members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union. Alstom will assemble the trains in Hornell, in the Southern Tier, manufacturing the car body shells at the newly opened Plant 4, which was built expressly to \u201creshore\u201d that activity to the U.S. The bogies (undercarriages) will be assembled at Alstom\u2019s plant in Plattsburgh, in the Adirondack region. The propulsion system will be made by Alstom in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link to read the full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alstom.com\/press-releases-news\/2025\/7\/alstom-provide-316-modern-comfortable-commuter-rail-cars-new-york-metropolitan-transportation-authoritys-long-island-rail-road-and-metro-north-railroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alstom to provide new rail cars to New York<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The New M9-A Trains Are Coming to the LIRR\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tGWfuHsis0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Alstom Hornell, New York, July 7, 2025 \u2013 Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, announced today that it has received a notice of award for a 2.3 billion USD contract to manufacture 316 commuter rail cars for Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad, the commuter rail divisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13831,1210,7658,4017,868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-railroad-news","category-subway-news","category-train-news","category-transportation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15148,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15146\/revisions\/15148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}