California selects Siemens for passenger car order two years after a Nippon-Sharyo prototype failed key test
From TRAINS Magazine Newswire; November 9, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Half-a-billion dollars in unanswered questions remain now that California officials are working with a new builder on a floundering, years-old passenger car order. 
California Department of Transportation — Caltrans — officials say in a Wednesday news release that German railroad equipment manufacturer Siemens will build 137 single-level coaches in its Sacramento shops at a cost of $371 million. The announcement seems to officially replace a $551-million bilevel order to Nippon-Sharyo from 2012. Illinois’ Department of Transportation will receive 88 cars in the revised order. California will take 49 cars. Officials say production will begin in the next year.
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