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With these comforts cannot imagine how few riders per car would be its capacity. Now imagine the fare required to make the car break even or even a profit.

Too many trees are coming down onto RR tracks. With lack of pole lines the RRs are eliminating tree removal. Our local CSX line will be a great can example of days of delays removing trees from a major storm.

1. Many years ago visited the St Petersburg station with its long platform(s?) while still an Amtrak maintenance station. What happened to that facility? 2. At one time a wild idea was to construct a RR bridge directly from TPA to STP. Now when Brightline gets to TPA wonder if anyone will...

This is an example of never travel anywhere to a connection with the last possible method to get to your connecting station / terminal / stop / etc. JFK in this case.

It is almost like Amtrak's lack of transparency on small issues such as this covers up its larger issues of non transparency?

what is mostly forgotten is that Boeing brought out an improved 29 called the B-50 It followed very closely to the B-36 being in service. B-50 had about twice the bomb payload of B-29. The following article points out some improvements. But what IMO was much more important was the B-50's...

Here is a question that is just though. Are all the Siemens passenger cars and future LD cars going to be able to work any train? Mainly thinking about the various inter car connections. Loco control, car control & now the firewire cable connections. It would short sighted to not apply all...

Will never happen but if Tampa US could have an elevated 2nd level platform(s) built for Brightline that would really unite the station for the future. Much better than a separate station at Ybor city. Walk Ybor to US maybe a stretch for oldsters.

Now can we hope that no NIMBY opposes the rezoning in the next 15 days.

That is one tall building. Trying to scale off the doorways it has to be well over 20 feet tall.

Another NS system wide failure of PTC. This VRE notice at 13:08. As of 14:15 Amtrak trains on NS running OK except 390 doing just 15 MPH. SERVICE ALERT VIRGINIA RAILWAY EXPRESS (VRE) Norfolk Southern is experiencing a systemwide Positive Train Control outage. They are working to...

The improvement schedule is important IMO. It should be applied to other route proposals as well. Yes, schedules will be slower but agreement which CP made is that reductions will be made as each improvement is made. That is what should have been done for the NOL - Mobile train although the...

2 deaths of whistle blowers will really bring out the conspiracy crowd.

Suspect that maybe Brightline service has improved the ability of riders to use Amtrak one way and Brightline the other? For Sunshine service IMO a minimum of 2 round trips would be needed. 1. First RT - Leave MIA no later than 0700 arrive TPA about 12:20 in time to make any cruise departure...

Just that statement makes my body shutter thinking about crossing between cars.