Brightline Five-Car Trains on the Orlando Line

[@glemanimations3758]

I rode on BrightGreen with my family on October 12th ORL-MIA at 6:50AM EST. What was super cool and rare was that train had 5 cars and they were all the same color. Also that train's horn had the overblowing issue that the SC-44s on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner have which made the horn sound so much better especially on the 110 mph zones.

[@CasualScrub]

Booked a brightline for 2 weeks from now, can't wait

[@Zeleno01]

1:14 THAT WAS A CLEAN SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT

[@patrickpeake3935]

How do they make a profit with two 4000 hp locos but only five cars?

[@edmundanderson657]

No where to get on 😢

[@SunRailMV]

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[@edmundanderson657]

@SunRailMV Oh I know where it is just no where to get on board.

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

Why don’t you railfan on the faster parts of the line??

[@ShaunCampbell-j7u]

Brightline is not really adding capacity, their capacity is really the same instead of 10 sets of 4 traincars it's now 8 sets of 5 traincars so BL is running 14 trains instead of 16 that's why their trains are more crowded by consolidating the same capacity by running lesser trips so that their more profitable

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

Yeah, where’d you get that information from

[@caseydorn3309]

Nope. It's 9 10 car sets instead of 10 4 car sets. 1 set is out of service each day but what matters is frequency. Let's do the math. They had 40 cars. They got 5. They have 45. 10*4=40, 9*5=45. They have added 5 cars to their fleet, ergo, more capacity. You're correct that they're temporarily reducing daily departures. How does that impact capacity? Let's find out. 16 trains per day * 4 cars per train = 64 cars per day each direction. 14 trains per day * 5 cars per train = 70 cars per day each direction. Translation: they're adding capacity. Thank you for playing. Also it's they're, not their 🙂.

[@trainlover123trainsrock]

@@caseydorn3309finally someone with brain cells

[@tomoconnell2320]

This is incorrect. They recently received a new shipment of cars and they added a new car to each train. You are referring to an action they took earlier in the year briefly that has since been undone. They will keep the number of trains the same and eventually reach 7 cars per set by 2025. They built the network infrastructure to support up to 10 cars per train without needing any additional upgrades