The Brief
- Governor Gavin Newsom recently celebrated the completion of the 150-acre Southern Railhead Facility in Kern County, a major logistics hub for high-speed rail.
- The facility, completed one year after construction began, will serve as the central site for the storage and distribution of materials needed to electrify the system.
- The project has reached 80 miles of finished guideway, with nearly $25 billion in total economic output generated for the state so far.
KERN COUNTY, Calif. – California’s high-speed rail project reached a significant implementation milestone this week with the completion of the Southern Railhead Facility near Wasco in the San Joaquin Valley.
This 150-acre site marks the transition from heavy civil construction to the critical track-laying and electrification phase of the nation’s first high-speed rail system.
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