by east point
rcthompson04 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 6:46 am The easiest place to expand “high speed” trains eta in the short term is the Keystone Service. All the “express” stations except Middletown have been converted to high level platforms and Middletown is in the process of having that done now. Ardmore is under construction for high level platforms and Coatesville, Downingtown and Parkesburg are in various stages of serious planning for high level platforms.Until a week ago felt the same. Now after reading the asset plan found out that the route state of good repair ( SOGR ) is much worse than the rest of the NEC. A quick example is the CAT. Amtrak is asking for $30M for FY 2021 just to repair the CAT Zoo to Paoli . Evidently the CAT is not great, poles are too far apart, Transmission towers need replacement, track will not support faster than 110 MPH, etc.
https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/proj ... Y21-25.pdf