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(full disclosure; that ride was Salzburg to Freilassing - all of ten klicks). Off topic, but lest one wonder why Freilassing? Germany has reinstituted passport controls, and such represents a "frontier" between Austria and Germany. I don't think they have withdrawn from Schengen, but I be...

The track speed on the Adirondack route from the border to Montreal was some of the slowest speeds on a regularly scheduled train I have ever experienced in a first world country, so I'm not surprised something finally broke here. It felt like a cruise ship through Canadian farmland. Hopefully all t...

Have the rails in Garfield been lifted and the street replaced? Yes, all gone. Final nail in the coffin for any possible sort of saving. and the real point of absolutely no return is a residential structure already being built on the ROW in Passaic. You can follow the completely paved over ROW on t...

This route, uniquely for Amtrak in the Northeast, has three new build stations. Yes, they might be at historical station sites but all actual used infrastructure (ie platforms, overhangs ...etc) seem completely new. I thought there was an ADA-requirement for all new builds to have ADA level boarding...

The work past the tunnel is what, 5 miles of single track railroad on an existing railroad grade? And a presumably small station. for 26 million? Seems outrageous. What am I missing? Swamps, endangered bats, washouts, and tunnels. And there's no getting to PA without shelling out this amount, despi...

Maybe Sir you should look at another German speaking country, Deutchland. The Stuttgart 21 should have opened 2 years ago and now projected to open in 2025. It is also in an urban environment like Gateway and not going under a mountain with little to no utilities, other tunnels and, foundations to ...

So new tunnel - two tubes will take 8 years to build starting in summer 2023......... The existing tunnels - two tubes built by the PRR within 2 years back in 1910.......... That's called progress right? A whole bunch of people definitely died building the 1910 Tunnels, either directly or later ind...

As I understand it the big hurdle here is not the track in Vermont. The hurdle is in NY State. The B&M passenger main between Troy and Johnsonville-- the route used by the NYC/B&M/RUT Green Mountain Flyer and Mount Royal back in the day-- has been gone for decades. Any passenger service to ...

Now that the Ethan Allen is most certainly being extended to Burlington Union Station. Is there any effort/political will for Vermont's dream Ethan Allen alignment? ... Entering Vermont at its Southeasterly corner near North Bennington and running completely through VT to Burlington?This would provi...

Regardie wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:13 am Oh, and a battery powered engine that could recharge under the wire and then continue on battery down the NJCL.

It is too complicated to be a binary success/fail. Success Part: One transfer access to Midtown for Hoboken Division, without needing PATH Brought together all heavy-rail lines of NJT, aside from ACL Spurred some development in the area Provides jumping off point to Meadowlands Events Failure Part: ...

https://njtplans.com/ This came across the news wires, so I took a quick look. Lots of expansion on the rail side. I guess groundhog day comes every ten years in the Garden State. I remember arguing about this one a decade ago...god I´m old. Here we go again https://www.nj-arp.org/Assets/miscellane...

JTGSHU, a respected poster who unfortunately passed several years ago, was an NJT engineer. He clearly and cogently explained why, despite the way it may appear on a map, the Southern Division route is not faster than the NEC route. If I can remember back that far without scrolling through archives...

One part of this story nothing/nobody seems to be really touching on is, What is going to happen to the NYGL Passaic River bridge? That is significant piece of infrastructure over a river with already enough superfund sites along it to rival Chernobyl in toxicity. If my memory serves me correctly, i...

There's a number of miles from Poughkeepsie to Albany that is 110 mph. When the Turboliners were being tested, they considered (and tested) to 125mph. I believe right now there's ONE grade crossing, that if closed would allow another chunk of 110mph running. (There are other grade crossings, but as...