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Trains magazine February 1955 page 10. More than 200 architects signed a nopen letter to Robert R. Young and Pat McGinnis in Architectural Forum, requesting them to save Grand Central's famed concourse in the event air rights over the terminal are sold. The concourse is "probably the finest big...

SE NC study can be found here. Dated April 2024. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/649c7228e2109c2801c8f2f3/t/6622fb82122a1e1538343ded/1713568652062/SENC+Passenger+Rail+Feasibility+Study+DRAFT+20240417.pdf

And I am not anti tourism and certainly don't mind getting people downtown. Block a street, we do it a few times a year. One more weekend is not going to kill business and it likely will bring in some more foot traffic. Just leave the parking alone at the Depot.

Well the pickleball tournament was rained out. I am hearing it is to be rescheduled. So any Amtrak, PART, Greyhound passengers still had to walk from non on-site parking and likely during the rain.

NC By Train prints palmcards and small foldables that expend to show the Carolinian and Piedmont trains. Crescent, Silver service, and Palmetto trains are not included.

I regret I can only like this once time. There needs to be a Super-Duper Like.

I'll take 4 to a table just to have a conversation actually. I can eat plenty of meals with just my wife. Travel is special enough to treat it special.

I'll take that over having to stay in a private room. That is a nice option for some but I do like to sit in the dinner and talk to a stranger.

I have two segments on the Crescent in late June and 1 July. I assume summer for Crescent dinner is 2 July. :)

No dining car back as of last weekend and I don't think June 9 will be the case either, but I have heard of summer as a rumor on this board. I did a search on Google Maps. I noticed what I assume is a micro brewery a few blocks away, a Mexican place and everyone's favorite from my hometown of...

March 2024 highest ridership for month EVER. https://www.ncdot.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/2024/2024-04-11-nc-by-train-highest-ridership-month.aspx

I am not sure if Greensboro is advertising this around the area. If could bring in some on the train. That is not a bad idea. And I don't mind it being downtown. Just not here.

18 cars not counting the engines would be about 1500 feet long and the Charlotte platform as measured on Google Earth is about 1500 feet long. Coincidence, I think not. As I continue to work, slowly, measuring all the platforms it will be interesting to see if any existing platforms from...

And I am not opposed to having this downtown (I appreciate getting people downtown), but we have a bunch of parking decks that are flat on the top floor and our new performing arts center has a huge parking lot that, even if used for an evening performance could be used for pickleball during the...

So the reason I had to fire off a missive to the Greensboro City Council. There is to be a pickleball tournament at the Depot and that is going to take over just about all the parking and make use of the front door drop off impossible to use based on the map. They are offering some free...

At this point YouTubers or not, we have to take our meals in the rooms. I have had some very nice interactions years ago and hate that can't happen now. It is nice to have an option but right now we don't have that either. So back to the other question-How long was the Crescent decades ago?

Thanks for digging up that old thread from 14 years ago. One of the things about an older message board is the history it contains. Without a dinner on the Crescent I feel like we are trying to now do math that is akin to dividing by zero. Another reason and maybe the most important reason...

I have need to write my city council about the Greensboro train station, which is owned by the city of Greensboro. I was looking at the map of the districts and the Depot is split between the district 2 which contains the Carolinian/Piedmont platform and the station building proper and the...

I had a chance to grab a video of the Crescent 20 at the platform this morning. Two engines, 3 coach class cars, cafe, sleeper 2010, then sleeper 2011 then bag dorm 2012. Car 2012 would imply 12 cars on the train, including the engines in the count. Amtrak is jumping from car 7 to car 10 now...

SMART-TD statement https://www.smart-union.org/ground-broken-on-brightline-west-new-rail-jobs-incoming/