As we first reported last year, while the projected Revenue Service Date (RSD) for Caltrain’s electrification and modernization project hadn’t been moved from December of 2021, the projected timeline to complete the first eight miles of electrified track and begin testing was running six (6) months behind schedule.

And based on the latest progress report for the project, the expected Revenue Service Date has just been officially pushed back from December 2021 to May of 2022, not including any leeway for potential project risk factors or troubleshooting, and the milestone previously known as “Pre-Revenue Testing” has been renamed “Phased Revenue Service” to maintain an official “service” date by the end of 2021.

Keep in mind that the aforementioned progress report, and schedule above, was prepared prior to California’s High Speed Rail (HSR) kerfuffle and potential knock on effects. We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in.