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I drive the Run8 train simulator's A-Line route, which covers from Waycross and Jesup, GA all the way down to the south end of Orlando, FL which is used by Amtrak's Silver Service trains. I've passed by a small yard which in real life contains a number of private railcars, many, if not all of...

I've completed the first phase of a mobile ATCS setup in my truck. I'm a ham radio operator and have had a VHF antenna to receive voice communications for years (I operate 144-148MHz, railroads are 160-162). I'm adverse to drilling through my vehicles so I've always used no-drill methods. On my...

With Hunter Harrison now at the throttle of CSX, the last of the two hump yards in Atlanta, Tilford, will be de-humped. http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/03/22-csx-to-close-down-tilford-hump-yard-in-atlanta# Along with the ex-Georgia road being dropped from a 50mph secondary mainline to...

For about 3 or so years, I've been working on and off (mostly off) on a railroad signaling simulator. I am pleased to say that I am releasing version 1 to the wild. Now this isn't a train simulator, or even a dispatching simulator. It only simulates the progression of train signals as trains...

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/metros/marta-issues-rfi-for-new-metro-train-fleet.html?channel=000 This is great news, I'm quite looking forward to new vehicles. What's particularly interesting is the potential for pantograph-equipped vehicles. A lot of us are wondering if A. MARTA is...

What is the general process for the selection and if necessary, removal of the president of Amtrak? I know up front there's a nomination process followed by confirmation, but is that it? What about removal? Impeachment and senate trial?

So I'm booked on the Crescent sometime around the labor day holiday ATL-NWK and back. However coming back since the Crescent leaves mid-afternoon I may want to do some early-morning sightseeing in New York. Since it looks like NWK and NYP are the same cost, should I bother changing my ticket...

Apologies if there was a recent topic on this, I thought there might have been, but couldn't find it. But is Benson, AZ perhaps the smallest "station" in the entire system? http://goo.gl/maps/iyQkO It's a shelter (can a person even fit in it?) and a one-door-wide strip of pavement across the...

After years of delay, the streetcar will finally open on December 30 of this year. [link removed, proper link posted by neroden below] Unfortunately, I have to work that day, and I'm busy the next two, so I won't be able to check it out till the weekend.

The route from Run 8 Train Sim's partner Hyrail Simulations I've been long waiting on is finally due to be released! http://www.hyrailsimulations.com/For those that don't know what the A-line is, it's basically CSX's route along the Georgia Coast through Orlando. Specifically, this route will...

For years now, I've been refining my pro-transit talking points, and arguments, and style against the anti-transit folks. But more recently, I'm finding myself in a stickier situation that I am simply not prepared for. A member of another forum and I are both strong transit transit advocates for...

Woah, save your pitchforks and torches for the author of the article below. I'm not sure if this belongs here, random discussions, or that certain part of the internet that no one should ever go to. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-w-schleisner/let-nj-transits-trains-us_b_5318096.html

Originally, I had wondered how anything with a locomotive that needed to be turned (not push-pull) would originate going north out of NYP. However, I looked through the Amtrak schedule and didn't see anything right off hand that uses a locomotive and heads North/East (toward Boston). Is there...

I know the Tier-III standards aren't finalized yet, but a friend of mine made me think about something. I know Tier-I is what everything but the Acelas are and are limited to 125mph. I know Tier-II is what the Acelas are. And I know the hope is that Tier-III will allow something like SIemens's...

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/amtrak-serving-free-wine-food-paid-taxpayers/ncWHb/ Of course, the only time the news in Georgia has a story about Amtrak, it's a negative story! I was surprised to see this running, and personally I consider this practically a non-issue. I wonder how much...

Folks, it's that time again, operating off a tip elsewhere, and confirming via Amsnag, the Crescent will be truncated to Atlanta from New York Monday through Thursday looks like January 6 through February 6.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/speeding-train-splits-semi-truck-norcross-crash/nb5XQ/ I don't have much issue with the report itself, but the headline is very misleading. It makes it sound like the train was doing something wrong. This seems to go well with "train lost contact" but at...

Following a tip on another forum, it appears that after July 20, tickets are being sold on the Long Distance trains southbound. Not all of them, however, right off hand, I don't see the Cardinal or Silver Meteor, none of them are showing for northbound travel (makes sense), and sleepers don't...

I was wondering why Fredericksburg, VA is skipped by all but the Carolinians and Regionals? For the Silvers and Palmetto, it is literally in the middle of a 100 mile gap between Richmond and Alexandria, and at least in my personal opinion, would open up the South of D.C. area to the LD market...

We'll be traveling to a place near the Meadowlands complex in New Jersey soon and I have a question about the turnpike. http://goo.gl/maps/zpcfF That link shows what looks like a "turnaround" where NB vehicles can go southbound again. The "normal" directions to our destination would take us...