ORLANDO, Fla. — Brightline is gearing up to carry passengers from Central Florida to South Florida in a few weeks.
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The trains run on biodiesel fuel, a very eco-friendly approach.
However, that is just one chapter of Brightline’s sustainability story.
“Steel is a dirty industry. It’s an industry that has been a polluter in our country,” said Michael Cegelis with Brightline.
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Brightline was committed to changing that.
Cegelis said 100 million pounds of recycled steel was used for the rails that were built for Brightline.
“It’s old steel, scrap steel that has been clean, and then is dumped into a giant furnace and melted and the output is new rail,” Cegelis said.
Another major eco-effort for Brightline was building embankments using borrow pits along the route and developing a conveyor method to move the material.
Leading up to the Central Florida start, Brightline says everything it has done has had people and planet at the core.
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