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Siemens Venture

🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Siemens Mobility· from 2018· a series of American trainsets manufactured by Siemens Mobility based off the Siemens Viaggio railcars

🚆 multiple unit ✓ in service
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. San Joaquin train: Sergey Yarmolyuk· CC0
  2. 2. Brampton ON VIA-Rail-Canada Passenger-Train 2026-05-11 (3): Milan Suvajac· CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. Amtrak Airo: George Luchs· CC0
  4. 4. Amtrak Cascades Airo ALC-42E 7001 with Venture train rolling across the Willamette Valley: Oregon Department of Transportation· CC BY 4.0
  5. 5. Amtrak Cascades Airo Venture train: Oregon Department of Transportation· CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. Amtrak Cascades Airo Venture train at the Salem station: Oregon Department of Transportation· CC BY 4.0
  7. 7. Siemens Venture Union Station: Sea Cow· CC BY-SA 4.0
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Siemens Venture, photo 1 of 7
1/7 Sergey Yarmolyuk· CC0

what is it?

Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe, with adaptations for North American operations. The cars entered service with Brightline in 2018 and with Amtrak Midwest (services funded by Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin) in 2022.

who runs it

AmtrakVia RailBrightline

base stats

  • speed 201 km/htop speed
  • weight 50.8 tin working order
  • built 938made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

  • First built 8 years ago, in 2018.
  • Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
  • Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 25.9 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.

multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.

spec sheet

built
2018
in service from
2018
status
in service
number built
938
kind
multiple unit
origin
🇨🇦 Canada
builders
Siemens Mobility, Siemens
operators
Amtrak, Via Rail, Brightline
top speed
201 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
length
25.9 m
weight
50.8 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

family

Amtrak Airo2026

Sources: Wikidata Q96106536, Wikipedia: Siemens Venture (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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