Since the Virginia DRPT has been silent as of late, I was wondering what the status/timetable was for:
A) Extending the train to Norfolk? I think this is about two years off, but I don't recall for certain (I've seen 2013 as the most likely date, and I know there are infrastructure issues here), and of course there's always room for things to get stalled.
B) Extending a third train to Newport News? Here, I haven't heard anything, but every document I've seen shows that it's in the works, and if it's functionally more or less a matter of where the trains "sleep" at night (and where you have the crew based/commissary facilities located), then it would seem to make sense to move everything down the Peninsula, trains turning in the middle of the day notwithstanding. I know at least two trains overnight at the Richmond station, and from the timetables it looks like three of them do.
Also, on extending the train, is there any word on which train would most likely be extended? My best guess would be 83(93)/84 (86 leaves way too early...6:00 out of RVR would translate roughly into 4:00 out of NPN, while 85 would be putting folks into NPN about 11 at night, which is probably a hair too late; 174 isn't bad, but a 5 AM departure from NPN would probably be a bit much).
A) Extending the train to Norfolk? I think this is about two years off, but I don't recall for certain (I've seen 2013 as the most likely date, and I know there are infrastructure issues here), and of course there's always room for things to get stalled.
B) Extending a third train to Newport News? Here, I haven't heard anything, but every document I've seen shows that it's in the works, and if it's functionally more or less a matter of where the trains "sleep" at night (and where you have the crew based/commissary facilities located), then it would seem to make sense to move everything down the Peninsula, trains turning in the middle of the day notwithstanding. I know at least two trains overnight at the Richmond station, and from the timetables it looks like three of them do.
Also, on extending the train, is there any word on which train would most likely be extended? My best guess would be 83(93)/84 (86 leaves way too early...6:00 out of RVR would translate roughly into 4:00 out of NPN, while 85 would be putting folks into NPN about 11 at night, which is probably a hair too late; 174 isn't bad, but a 5 AM departure from NPN would probably be a bit much).
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