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

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You may be on the right track. It may be that buildings and ownership might be different with Illinois ventures and Amtrak ventures. Maybe the freight RRs might have problems of Amtrak taking their freight business. Look at Brightline deliveries as well.

Also with the ACS-64s, I think it may have been possible that they were delivered to their owner (Amtrak) in the Bay Area who then could take them to the NEC. But the delivery to the owner cannot be done by anyone else. Because the ventures are owned by IDOT, they must be delivered to IDOT, which means they can’t travel on Amtrak to get there.