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Amtrak is trying to move the Horizon cars around to different state services that are not receiving the Siemens cars. Such as the Downeaster has had 2 visits to Maine to familiarize with the cars.

There was to be a direct Harlem train on Sat 4/6: 10:51pm Yankee to Southeast 12:25am. No clue if it operated though.

With the shutdown of the Port of Baltimore following this mornings bridge collapse, does anyone know of an alternate port to handle offloading of railcars onto the national network.

If you are referencing PTC enforcement of restrictions of a single MU or lite engine, then it is no different than any other move that receives signals from wayside transponders. Equipment braking curves under ACSES are one-size-fits-all and don't change per consist. If if is about protecting the eq...

Don't temp us with a good time, after April 6th. The ICANN Registry Expiration is: 2024-04-06

Mod Note: worked a little magic to copy over STrRedWolf's post with train numbers / equipment rotations from the other thread.

If there was talks of upgrading the Signal system on the DB and the SB, then we would be having a progressive talk about potential electrification. As of now, neither territory can use their museum relics of a signal system and support electrification.

You would be using West coast ports and transcontinental intermodal do NNJ. In a world when the Panama Canal is fully hydrated, that will save at least a week of transit time from Orient to Bayoone.

Mod Note: Let’s get back to our regularly scheduled ALMOST Acela II discussion.

The Brightline commuters WPB-MIA are still taking a seat from the Orlando ridership, not a slot from the intercity areas. I don’t think the infancy of IRIS trips of TriRail for the “last mile” would affect those slots into Miami Central. There was still ramping up of round trips from the last couple...

You can always change-order some of those new cars on order. An example was 2x1 seating and other creature comforts from Bombardier et.al. for the ACES Train for NJ Transit from 15 years ago.

Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:21 am Previously not reported here is Brightline's reporting mark:

BFLX

Such presumably represents Brightline, Florida, Private Owner.

I wholeheartedly believe that this RFI will lead its way from single level, to the Bombardier Multilevel EMU being developed for NJT.

BandA wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:45 pm Warner Bros. should post a list of links to all the Polar Express trains that they have licensed

Why couldn't there of been a NS GP-38-2 instead, what is Pavoina thinking?