Well, you go me. I'm stumped. Where is SJM? and where is BAM? or HOM? I'm guessing that GRR is Grand Rapids.
I guess all the true insiders understand the jargon. The rest of us not so much.
When I was younger, I worked for an editor whose most dreaded marginal comment was "DARK". That stood...
iirc The target date for the bypass is April, but I don't think it has a specific date yet. It is supposed to happen when the PTC is up and tested and working. A delay is possible, of course. But I wouldn't count on using the old route after April.
Talgo must be very happy, going back where they are and will be appreciated. LOL. They've had a very good relationship with the Cascades for 20 years or so, but were treated shabbily by Scott Walker and the Koch Brothers. Hope Talgo doesn't take a loss on these trains after all the mess.
This is now a settled question.
On Railroad.net, bostontrainguy posted this info he found from the Federal Register online:
Amtrak plans to lease two articulated Series 8 trainsets from Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol (Talgo) to support its Cascade intercity service...
Invest in a daily Cardinal, and a second frequency, with improvements on the route, like eliminating more grade crossings.
The cure for what ails Amtrak is more Amtrak (including more grade-separated crossings).
Edited when I finally recalled the right word. LOL.
Best thing that could happen to California HSR would be for Texas HSR to get finished first.
The Golden State won't stand for being left behind by its rival Lone Star state.
If a sign like this goes for about $72 on the Internet, maybe the cost could be covered by a crowd-funding drive? Nah, easier to write the check and sent it to Richard Anderson my damn self.
WPK is the code for Winter Park, Florida. This info for those of us who memorized the 500+ Amtrak codes when young, but have forgot them in our dotage.
Whoa, Son. You are presumptuous and disrespectful to this community to parachute in making a half dozen posts and then telling a senior and well-respected member here who has made over 2,400 posts that he's childish and pedantic. Please chill.
Actually, I don't recall an exact amounted demanded by CSX, or where they wanted to spend it. I just heard that they asked so much altogether that it seemed to stop the discussion. But the dark, unsignaled stretch (where the new train is to run overnight) lies between Pensacola and Tallahassee...
CSX, 2017: "That stretch is vital to our system. Putting any Amtrak trains on it will seriously disrupt our freight operations. We'll need a Billion for upgrades to avoid harm to our core business."
CSX, 2018: "We don't even need those tracks in Florida for our freight business. See if we can...
That's a big step ahead for the Capitol Corridor trains. About $300 million ahead. So when they get the funding in place ...
(I'm sorry to see you say the Coast Starlight already uses the shorter route. I'd been planning an earlier arrival in L.A. until I saw that. LOL.)