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The '''electrification of Caltrain''' is a $1.9 billion proposed project to [[Railway electrification system|electrify the main line]] of [[Caltrain]], a [[commuter railroad]] serving cities in the [[San Francisco Peninsula]] and [[Silicon Valley]]. The project will allow Caltrain to transition from its currently [[diesel-electric locomotive]] powered trains to a fully electric rolling stock. Electric trains will allow Caltrain to improve service times via faster acceleration and increased [[headway|headways]], reduce air pollution and noise, and facilitate a future underground expansion into downtown San Francisco's [[Transbay Transit Center]] because the current diesel trains cannot serve underground stations.
The first phase of the project will electrify {{convert|49|mi|km}} of tracks between [[San Francisco 4th and King Street Station|4th and King station]] and [[Tamien Station]]. Funding for the project comes from various federal, state, and local sources, including from the [[California High-Speed Rail|California High-Speed Rail Authority]], which plans to share Caltrain's tracks in the future. Construction contracts were awarded on July 2016 and [[groundbreaking]] was expected to occur in March 2017, but was delayed when the Secretary of the United States Secretary of Transportation [[Elaine Chao]] indefinitely deferred federal funding just before construction was about to begin. Caltrain plans to complete the project by 2020, after which it plans to use double-decker [[electric multiple unit]] [[Stadler Rail]] trainsets on the electrified route, and retain the older diesel locomotives for service south of Tamien and, potentially, on the [[Dumbarton Rail Corridor]].
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