Brightline 2023 Year in Review: End of Orlando Construction and Start of Service

[@2TolEressea]

Excellent coverage of this civil/railroad engineering project! Brightline, if you are listening, you need to offer @RoamingRailfan a position in California to follow and document your construction of Brightline West.

[@petercruikshank2618]

That was quite a year for Brightline. Bravo for all of your hard work! On to Tampa!

[@flyboy5994]

You only live once, Brightline West, your the man for the job.

[@pinchy08]

2023 was quite the year of construction for the Brightline Orlando extension.

[@richiej5884]

A beautiful tribute and recap to your hard work and coverage of the construction of Brightline. Thank you so much!

[@BradRains]

Fantastic year-in-review. Now just need Brightline to get the Orlando to Tampa line work to start sometime in the future.

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Great video. It was nice looking back at last years progress. Hey that train looks just like yours. I truly appreciate your dedication to this project, its history is now documented.

[@garypetreskysr4947]

Thank you for this review of the project! I enjoyed every video you posted. I hope to get down to FLA to ride this train. Thanks again.

[@kittty2005]

You're awesome.Stay classy.

[@ELAlcoRS3]

Excellent documentary!

[@DanHPage]

Great summary, thanks!

[@DanielCoin88]

Brightline West is about to start construction this May according to Fox5 since they about to hire 11,000 people but I wonder if they could hire 35,000 Construction Workers then they could do that!

[@billyrueckert5113]

When do they anticipate adding a second track between Orlando and Cocoa?

[@RoamingRailfan]

No timeline currently

[@trueanimationfan6542]

@@RoamingRailfan I'd be surprised if it took them more than 4-5 years to add it on. Demand has still been growing despite the price of tickets to Orlando

[@mikemancini313]

Do you have any plans to film construction on Brightline West? Just curious.

[@RoamingRailfan]

Still TBD

[@louisletourneau3429]

Beautifull video and description of the works involved in 2023 !! Do you know why they choose to put a loco at each end instead of a cab car/loco combination . In Canada VIA Rail use the same train but with the locomotive/cab car combination ?

[@RoamingRailfan]

Having two locomotives provides redundancy should something happen mid trip and ensures passengers always have electricity in the coaches, especially important to ensure the A/C systems are working in the Florida heat. The extra horsepower will also help when the consists eventually expand.

[@richardsmith4187]

Fantastic review as your coverage is the best !! Have you heard anything regarding the construction time line for Tampa ??

[@RoamingRailfan]

Nothing soon

[@richardsmith4187]

@@RoamingRailfan 😭😭😭😭

[@Carsondreed7]

Can we expect SunRail deland station update soon?

[@RoamingRailfan]

Next few weeks, I haven't had time to make it there yet this year.

[@Carsondreed7]

@@RoamingRailfanall good I appreciate it

[@tomoconnell2320]

@1:45 what is the max speed allowed for this type of turnout? Both for trains staying straight and trains moving onto the second track?

[@RoamingRailfan]

80mph for the diverging side, full track speed of 125mph on the tangent side