Just Saw It's Pushed To 2017
 

Came accros this article updating the train's construction.

Still doesn't seem like a terrible idea but wonder if it will ever actually get finished. Does anyone have an example of a large public(ish) construction project that actually got finished without major delays. Guy at work insists this Scarborough retirement condo is an example but I think he's reaching.

new soccer stadium near Downtown MIami Station.
http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-ne...05-Stadium.jpg

That'll work. It's very near Culmer Station. They don't have extended the metrorail. I think Metromover will connect with the Marlins Stadium and the new soccer stadiums, as well. I think it's right choice for everyone. There is no needing extended the metrorail.

great photo
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Hey! Thanks for posting a pics. I haven't see it yet. Everything change. I miss South Florida. I remember Broward Central Terminal and it is on Broward Blvd. I can see that.

All Aboard Florida receives second rail delivery

All Aboard Florida on Friday received its second delivery of rail beams — material that will be used to add a second track to the Florida East Coast Railroad line as part of the company’s plan to launch passenger train service between Miami and Orlando.

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^ A train on Friday delivered rail sections for the All Aboard Florida project. Photo credit: All Aboard Florida

The company said the rail beams, which were delivered by train, are set to be unloaded at a handful of locations along the FEC corridor between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Each rail beam is 1,600 feet long and weighs 72,533 pounds.

The new track will run parallel to the FEC line, allowing two trains to pass each other.

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^ A train on Friday delivered rail sections for the All Aboard Florida project. Photo credit: All Aboard Florida

http://malled.blog.palmbeachpost.com...rail-delivery/

lots of construction going on, good photos
http://www.thenextmiami.com/foundati...entral-photos/
what about the new giant hotel where the old arena was?

Yes! This is where they used to be. A old Miami Arena. That was long time ago. It was very near Overtown Metrorail station.

and the Ripple effect has started
 

Land Across From MiamiCentral Trades For $6.3 Million, Part Of 1 Acre Assemblage
By TNM Staff on December 10, 2015

An investor has acquired 22,500 square feet of land across from All Aboard Florida’s MiamiCentral project.

Three folios traded for $6.3 million, including 201 Northwest 1st Ave, 95 Northwest 2nd Street, and 57 Northwest 2nd Street. The transaction closed on November 24.

Greenwood Miami, LLC is the buyer. Goldstone Property Inc, managed by the same owner, also controls the adjacent land, for a combined assemblage of 45,000 square feet.

The new owner is open to a joint venture or sale, according to a representative. The property is located on the same block where the Miami Parking Authority controversially approved the 33-story Grand Station residential tower last month (Moishe Mana also owns property on the block.)

Attorney Manny Vadillo of Torres Vadillo LLP represented the buyer.

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/land-acr...re-assemblage/

The Marriott Expo Center is undergoing the permitting process now.
More info here :
http://www.thenextmiami.com/temporar...-at-paramount/

Foundation Work Closer To Completion At MiamiCentral (Photos)
By TNM Staff on December 10, 2015

All Aboard Florida continues to make progress on the foundation for several towers at MiamiCentral.

Work now underway includes several residential towers, an office tower, a large retail complex, and a Brightline train terminal.

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Background is the AA Arena & the Freedom Tower with the empty lots in the middle being prepped for the Miami World Center project :

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http://www.thenextmiami.com/foundati...entral-photos/

http://malled.blog.palmbeachpost.com...tion-in-miami/
Tri-rail approved for downtown miami AAF station.
half of trains go to AAF, half go to MIA airport.

Please use on existing thread:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...97#post7268497

This is not right one, but you have to go on another thread.

jacksonvill&orlando&tampa

All Aboard Florida has paid $1.4 million to the Central Florida Expressway Authority to help secure the final easements it needs to make its run from Miami to Orlando. The commuter rail line has also indicated in its contract that an extension to Jacksonville is a real possibility.
When describing how All Aboard Florida will operate, the contract states in a number of places that “it is understood and agreed” that a Jacksonville leg is being considered.
When All Aboard Florida first announced its rail plans in 2012, executives with the company spoke openly about the railroad starting in Miami and reaching upwards to Jacksonville and west from Orlando to Tampa.
The talk cooled as the project progressed and the current plan is to get the system running from Miami to Orlando, with stops in Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
All Aboard Florida, a couple of years ago, secured all the easements it needed for its run up the coast from the Florida Department of Transportation. With that in hand, All Aboard Florida is working with the expressway authority to secure rights in Orange County.

not true , The Miami central station is a BIG deal for downtown and everything new building nearby.
In the future thou the Tri-rail trains will be more important then AAF trains.
tri-rail has 18 existing stations with years of ridership.
AAF will only have 3 stations plus 1 in orlando.

actually only 16 tri-rail stations will access the AAF miami station.
the hialeah & MIA airport stations will be on a different line.

downtown WPB
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Thanks for posting a pics. Keep doing that!!!

I'm definitely not surprised. I've been saying for well over a year that they've been looking at this area. When you think about it, it makes all the sense in the world. The track is already there and the FEC, which is based in Jax, owns it. They also own or potentially have access to developable ready land around potential station sites. With the Miami-Orlando segment, a chuck of initial implementation costs are already being paid for. In addition, extending along an existing line they already own, also gives them the ability to tap into additional tourist destinations like Daytona Beach and St. Augustine. It's not a matter of if....just when. Btw, here's the link to the press release:

http://www.allaboardflorida.com/in-t...le-in-contract

I'm definitely not surprised. I've been saying for well over a year that they've been looking at this area. When you think about it, it makes all the sense in the world. The track is already there and the FEC, which is based in Jax, owns it. They also own or potentially have access to developable ready land around potential station sites. With the Miami-Orlando segment, a chuck of initial implementation costs are already being paid for. In addition, extending along an existing line they already own, also gives them the ability to tap into additional tourist destinations like Daytona Beach and St. Augustine. It's not a matter of if...
YES - but first the city of jacksonville needs a new convention center
that should be very easy.
also BIG COLOR NEWS check out this photo
http://s12.therealdeal.com/trd/m/up/...e-1024x683.jpg

color photo video
https://youtu.be/Ye_UrCDsuPU

Yes, Jax needs to move the convention center but it should not stand in the way of bringing back rail service to the old Jacksonville Terminal. There's already a plan to eventually bring Amtrak back. I assume, at a minimum, they'd dust some of this stuff off:

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this video is very cool, but its only a foam mock up I think.
if you look at the picture of downtown WPB (on last page)
you can see the 7 foundations for the base of the giant V shaped things.
the Fort Lauderdale ones are also completed (pic is 2 pages back)
now multiply that by Who knows for Miami station. WOW.

love this pic except the 2014??
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Do you mean the Sunset Limited, or a different service?
There's apparently funding in the transportation re-authorization to renew this service (east of New Orleans), but who knows if it gets appropriated.

Would be nice.

^There's an "Amshack" station about 10 to 15 miles northwest of downtown. The plan is to eventually close it and reopen the historic union terminal in downtown. The old passenger rail terminal already has a Skyway people mover station and BRT and local bus bays are currently being built around it (the Skyway station). If Sunset Limited is restored, it would join Amtrak's Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains in coming back downtown.

http://www.thenextmiami.com/3-miamic...n-in-overtown/
update on 3 miamicentral garage/publix good photos

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=216427&page=4
the link for miami station Central
anybody got new photos

There's an station about 10 to 15 miles northwest of downtown. The plan is to eventually close it and reopen the historic union terminal in downtown. The old passenger rail terminal already has a Skyway people mover station and BRT and local bus bays are currently being built around it (the Skyway station).

is this the link you where looking for?
no these are not the links you are looking for?
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/art...e-jacksonville
nice x-mas for jacksonville.....
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^I just wrote that for my blog this morning. If AAF is extended to Jax, they would most likely use the historic terminal shown in the rendering above. It's on the FEC. The current station is on a CSX line. However, I'm not sure the platforms will resemble what JTA has proposed for Amtrak. Nevertheless, the goal is to replace this station shown below:

http://photos.metrojacksonville.com/...P1530153-M.jpg

Some believe a few of the old platforms and the original underground pedestrian concourse should be restored and used:

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The model looks like lego.

Lowest bidder

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/...station/nptTK/
nice update , also LED lights very cool

Good that they combine railroad and property development, making the project financially viable.

would love a construction update ?
but this is better... Beer!
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/198582-198582

nice update on palm beach train yard...
http://malled.blog.palmbeachpost.com...st-palm-beach/

West Palm Beach station construction update | January 2016
 

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Brightline Train maintenance facility in West Palm Beach

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"All Aboard Florida on Monday began construction on a rail repair facility that will service its Brightline trains when they begin shuttling passengers between South Florida and Orlando next year.

The facility, just north of downtown West Palm Beach, will be used to repair, maintain, clean and store Brightline’s trains, All Aboard officials said. About 50 people will work out of the 12-are site at 601 15th Street, which is also expected to serve as an office for the company’s conductors, engineers, and on-board service staff.

Crews on Monday, January 18, 2016 began vertical construction on a rail repair facility that will service All Aboard Florida’s Brightline.
Initially, five Brightline trains will be housed at the site, officials said.

“Every morning when the train services begin, the train will be leaving from this area,” said Adrian Share, Brightline’s executive vice president of rail infrastructure.

Crews for Archer Western, the firm selected to build the facility, started preliminary work at the site this fall. On Monday, the construction team poured the first batch of concrete in what will become a “maintenance pit.” The pit will allow Brightline crews to work underneath trains to perform required inspections and other daily service.
As part of the project, a warehouse on the site, which had previously been used by the Florida East Coast Railway, is being converted to offices, crew quarters and training rooms."

First Look at Brightline Trains Taking Shape at Siemens Rail Manufacturing Hub in Sac
 

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Brightline and Siemens announced today that the first stainless steel passenger coach car shell for the new train service has been completed, reaching a major milestone in the construction of the trains. More than 70 employees at Siemens’ state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sacramento have worked on building this 85-foot long first coach car, using more than 50,000 welds to fuse it together.

Brightline Train Car Shell Exterior with TeamSiemens is employing first-of-its-kind spot-welding technology to build the stainless steel coach car shells and these coaches will be the only car-body with a flat sidewall of this type in the U.S. market. The completed coach shell will now go through a finishing process, preparing it for final assembly.

“With the completion of the first coach car shell, we are bringing our vision for a truly unique train service that will transform travel in Florida one step closer to fruition,” said Mike Reininger, Brightline’s president. “The Siemens team has been working diligently and we are thrilled to mark this milestone as the finishing of this car progresses and the manufacture of additional cars continues.”

This coach shell is part of the first of Brightline’s initial five four-car train sets that will each carry 240 passengers with more train sets to follow as the service expands.
“We’re thrilled to be marking this production milestone with the Brightline team and also recognizing the highly-skilled work taking place at our Sacramento rail manufacturing plant,” said Michael Cahill, president of Siemens Rolling Stock.

Brightline Train Car Shell Interior“Siemens has been successfully building America's next era of innovative, high-performance and energy-efficient transportation solutions out of our Sacramento hub for decades, and we are excited to continue that tradition by employing the industry’s latest technologies and techniques to build these state-of-the-art train-sets for Brightline and its future riders.”

The Siemens Sacramento, CA manufacturing plant, which has been in operation for almost 30 years, is powered up to 80 percent by two megawatts of solar energy, currently employs over 800 people, and includes a recent 125,000 square-foot expansion to accommodate growing production needs. To support the skills needed for the advanced welding techniques being employed to build these train-sets, Siemens has launched a workforce development and training initiative partnering with local community colleges and the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA). Siemens has also developed a robust and diverse base of U.S. rail suppliers to support the next-generation of rail manufacturing for Brightline including components from more than 40 suppliers in more than 20 states with additional suppliers still being added.

Last week, Brightline poured the first concrete foundation for its Running Repair Facility in West Palm Beach, where the trains will be serviced and housed. Siemens will perform service and maintenance on the trains there. The facility is expected to be operation in August. Construction is also underway on Brightline’s train stations in Miami at MiamiCentral, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando.

http://news.usa.siemens.biz/blog/mob...ing-hub-sacram

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It's quite bizarre how the Governor of Florida Rick Scott rejected the HSR funds for Florida and basically gave our $2 billion HSR allocation to the CA HSR project , then All Aboard Florida has Siemens in CA build these trains for "BrightLine Florida"!

CA seems to win in both cases!
Anyways the "Siemens" trains look great!

Finally someone posts this here.

I can't wait to see what this coach looks like when it's on bogies and all painted. It's gonna look slick.

is this getting built across the street from AAF WPB??
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=219606

It looks like it's going to look very slick !

big development news THIS is what building across the street from AAF WPB station
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/l...a/10/boxy2.jpg

Woah

link to WPB station new building
cant they link up with bridge over tracks&road??

more Beer!
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/...o-senate-floor

good photos construction YO!
http://www.thenextmiami.com/first-cr...-miamicentral/

how do you post youtube videos, not linking
i know i did it before.......

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/shaping-o...369350041.html
wow more beer for the train
also article about real estate agents against AAF