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CQ400 heavy rail car procurement
CQ400 heavy rail car procurement — a 334-vehicle fleet replacing MARTA's entire 294-car heavy rail fleet
Awarded to Stadler — Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority now holds 2 positions with this supplier.
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- Buyer
- Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
- Where
- Georgia · Atlanta
- Segments
- Rolling stock
- Technology areas
- Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance
- Status
- In execution — Awarded to Stadler US, Inc.
- Value band
- $500m–1bn
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Awarded November 2019 · Fy26 payments to June 2026 · Cip adopted May 2026
Status in full
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Awarded to Stadler US, Inc. in November 2019 and in delivery and testing: MARTA states the first CQ400 railcar sets will complete final testing and enter revenue service across fiscal years 2027 to 2029, that disposal of the legacy fleet begins in fiscal 2027, and that the third trainset arrived in Atlanta in late 2025 with dynamic testing under its own power beginning in November.
Next step
Recorded award: Stadler — 334 CQ400 heavy rail cars replacing MARTA's whole fleet, award amount
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- Full scope
- Exact value
- How the figure was arrived at
- Key dates (3)
- Published bidders
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5 sources · all primary
- ● Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · FY26 MARTOC Annual Report — including the schedule of Payments and Contracts $20,000 or More for 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026 (vendor, purpose, contract number, award date, base term with options, award amount, paid to date) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · New CQ400 Railcars project page (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · FY2027 Proposed Capital Improvement Program Budget (April 2026), including Attachment A — State of Good Repair proposed projects ten-year forecast FY27–FY36 (PDF pages 19–21, text layer), Attachment B — MARTA City of Atlanta proposed projects ten-year forecast (PDF page 22) and Attachment C — MARTA Clayton County proposed projects ten-year forecast (PDF page 23); Attachments B and C carry no text layer and were read as pixels rendered at 300 dpi on 14 September 2026 (published 2026-04 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · FY27 Operating and Capital Budget Highlights (one pager) — capital sources and uses, top ten State of Good Repair projects by FY27 funds programmed (published 2026-04 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · State-of-Good-Repair Projects (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
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