Siemens Caltrans/IDOT Venture design, engineering, testing and delivery (2024-2025)

[ryanwc]

MDoT reported at the Michigan ARP meeting that 9 of 17 Venture cafe cars are in service along with all 80 other cars.

What do the Venture cars cost anyway?

 

[GDRRiley]

What do the Venture cars cost anyway?

Initial contract was 2.7M each in Nov 2017 (371M for 137 cars) by Aug 2019 that was 2.8M (25.2M 9 cars). We haven't seen a recent order but I'd expect 3.5-4M each at this point given inflation.

 

[desertflyer]

I got to experience the new Snack Station on the San Joaquins Venture Cars last week. I had made a sandwich for the trip and forgot it at home in San Francisco. Needless to say I was absolutely starving by the time I made it to LA Union Station.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

For what it's worth, I saw San Joaquins Venture Cafe cars 9801 and 9802 on 710 at Emeryville on the 2nd. Not sure how much information is online about these cars, so I thought I'd mention it here.

 

[toddinde]

I know they’ll be a welcome and needed addition. Is the automat concept dead now, hopefully?

 

[GDRRiley]

I know they’ll be a welcome and needed addition. Is the automat concept dead now, hopefully?

No they are still going with that
And given they are looking at the Stadler flirts in short 4 car sets not sure how they'd do anything other than a vending setup without destroying capacity or increasing costs with 2 staffed cafes given trains will need to run in pairs.