by mtuandrew
Took the Crescent NB out of Clemson once - this is accurate, and we still had a dozen people boarding at whatever obscene hour it was. (Time for state governments to look into a NYP-WAS-CLT-ATL daylight Regional?)
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electricron wrote:The Crescent is limited in its speeds NYP <> WASH. You can expect a new train to mirror the Carolinian & Palmetto times NYP - WASHGreg Moore wrote:I don't think a NYP-ATL daylight would work. But WAS-ATL is right at the edge of the limit for a day train and would work.WAS to ATL is 634 rail miles. That's much too short for Amtrak to provide by law without a state subsidizing it. Which state, or states, do you think should? Good luck getting them to participate. It's 859 rail miles between NYP and ATL, 109 rail miles longer than the 750 needed for Amtrak to provide the service. It takes the Crescent almost 18 hours to travel between NYP and ATL. That's a very long haul for a coach only train.
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palmland wrote:It baffles me why VA DOT doesn't work with NC DOT and reroute the Carolinian via Charlottesville/Lynchburg. If there was a connecting Piedmont Greensboro-Raleigh, I believe ridership would increase significantly. The Carolinian would likely pick up a significant amount of traffic from the much larger towns of Charlottesville and Lynchburg as well as Danville and Greensboro. The next step would be to extend it south and would arrive in Greenville at 8pm and Atlanta well before midnight. .Rerouting the Carolinian would drop all the daytime connections from CLY - RGH to Richmond . Petersburg and intermediate stops. . The population on the present route is much higher that Danville - CVS. Its the intermediate stations that count the most. CLT / GRO does not have many passengers for Danville / CVS. If RGH - Petersburg ever gets restored time will be close to same as the NS route.
east point wrote:But what is the real market? Is it CLT to Petersburg, Richmond as you suggest, or is it CLT to WAS/ NEC (and Lynchburg/CVS to NEC)?palmland wrote:It baffles me why VA DOT doesn't work with NC DOT and reroute the Carolinian via Charlottesville/Lynchburg. If there was a connecting Piedmont Greensboro-Raleigh, I believe ridership would increase significantly. The Carolinian would likely pick up a significant amount of traffic from the much larger towns of Charlottesville and Lynchburg as well as Danville and Greensboro. The next step would be to extend it south and would arrive in Greenville at 8pm and Atlanta well before midnight. .Rerouting the Carolinian would drop all the daytime connections from CLY - RGH to Richmond . Petersburg and intermediate stops. . The population on the present route is much higher that Danville - CVS. Its the intermediate stations that count the most. CLT / GRO does not have many passengers for Danville / CVS. If RGH - Petersburg ever gets restored time will be close to same as the NS route.