Recent content by Galls

But when you actually go to the website, there is not other mention of Amtrak or rail for that matter, just roads and bridges.

It is either trademark or copyright, but one lasts for the entire life of its creator +70 years and designs are copyrighted.

For locking electronics up all Amtrak would need to do in that regard is provide an anchor point in the room and then sell laptop locks for a profit, I do not think anyone is gonna bring wire cutters on a train.

Patents and Copyright on design are two very very different things. One can last forever.

Newark though, ehhhhhhh. I would be more comfortable in Harlem then in Newark.

Government entities have the inability to pay market rates for anything, namely labor. So franchising and even subsidizing operations would still be cheaper than a non competitive position which amtrak has now.

I concede your point on loading times, but not on Amtrak applicability, mostly from the idealistic principle that Amtrak is intercity rail and not a commuter service with a stop every 5 minutes. So in my fantasy world, where amtrak and commuter rail mix, there shall be 4 platforms, 2 low and 2...

Well it did say unlimited money, so who cares for throwing away the Acela sets. While you see massive delays, I see improved capacity with a finite resource, and surly a bi-level train is an improvement over the 2.5 level trains most commuter services seem to be going out of their way for. As...

Unlimited money you say? Google Maps So lets see on top of that ROW structure -Entire fleet just became one type of high speed capable, bi level equipment, capable of running on both diesel and electric lines without changing engines. -NEC Amtrak stations are now all low level boarding and...

Well for one thing your trip from Houston to Longview is on a bus, so do not act surprised when you get to the station and they herd to onto one. And since Ambus is more reliable than Amtrak you will be on time for your train ride from Longview to Walnut Ridge. In fact the one time I boarded...

Reading my post again now, I can see it could have been interpreted as calling the unwashed masses ignorant, when what I was really alluding to was more along the lines as time to destination is more important than the trip 9 times out of 10 and to be frank I very much agree.

They understand the pros quite well, they just do not understand the how those pros out way the time differential.

I just saw an ad for it on CNN, it was only Acela and North East Corridor though.

The AutoTrain is a surrender to the failure of public transit/urban transit in this country. It essentially means that outside of a few select urban areas, you need a car to get to get from front door to front door. Its success is proof of that. So from a marketplace perspective an East-West...

You sir are brave.