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Re: Filming from Amtrak LD trains

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:05 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Filming from Amtrak LD trains ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 1032

None of this makes sense (ok, it’s 4am, and this stupid time change is messing with me). In any case, if CSX means aiming a camera out a window of an Amtrak train and taking pictures (motion or still), they probably have little or no leg to stand on. And if they’re upset about people filming CSX tra...

Re: High Speed Rail HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth) (FKA Texas Central )

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:57 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: High Speed Rail HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth) (FKA Texas Central ) ¦  Replies: 302 ¦  Views: 97979

Maybe we should do nothing, so we can sit and moan about it in online forums for another few decades?

As for Amtrak, looks like Brightline is threatening their little fiefdom, and they don’t like it. It’s sad that government run transit agencies in the US act this way, but they do…

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:39 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

Mr. Nas, haven't you ever noticed how with a fixed seating arrangement as good as in place anywhere, save Chicago's METRA, and I think NJT, the forward riding seats fill up first? I guess after doing NYP to Port Washington or Mineola a zillion times, I’m just happy to have a seat, now that the LI h...

Re: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:43 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: NEC now Fixed Seating Including Rear-Facing ¦  Replies: 101 ¦  Views: 6717

People ride backwards on commuter trains all the time. What’s the big deal?

I do find it interesting that using ALC-42Es and APVs will allow for piecemeal electrification in ways that no other equipment in US operations do. I also see possibilities of extending routes like the Keystone services west of Harrisburg a possibility. You’re not going to see any extension of elec...

Re: ALC-42E Acquisition and Planned Operation

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:57 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: ALC-42E Acquisition and Planned Operation ¦  Replies: 22 ¦  Views: 2525

Possibly FEC required Brightline to have two engines on each set and perhaps Brightline envisions expanded consists, but failing either, Brightline sets appear way overpowered. Roughly 7500 or so for a 6-8 car train? That’s not much better than NJT, albeit with lighter equipment. About the only loc...

Re: ALC-42E Acquisition and Planned Operation

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:24 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: ALC-42E Acquisition and Planned Operation ¦  Replies: 22 ¦  Views: 2525

The problem isn’t top speed, it’s getting there. The “110” mph running on the Empire Corridor takes forever to get to speed, and the videos I’ve seen from operations out west are pathetically bad, too. Seriously, we’re talking barely 3000 hp for traction, to get a train to 110mph? Why even bother? B...

Re: LIRR P72 coaches... where'd they go?

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:49 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: LIRR P72 coaches... where'd they go? ¦  Replies: 132 ¦  Views: 69127

Awful through interlockings. And nasty on your ears, if the end doors were open. I lived within walking distance of Glen Head. I took the next Port Washington, or Mineola, even if an Oyster Bay train was earlier. The C3s ride better, and the few times I rode on the dual modes, they were quite punchy...

Re: "The Last Mile" Problem

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:40 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: "The Last Mile" Problem ¦  Replies: 35 ¦  Views: 2685

Amtrak can’t even through ticket with commuter rail lines. You literally either have to have multiple aps, or trudge around Penn Station to buy tickets to connect between trains that might literally be next to each other at track level. Forget busses/subways. Meanwhile, interconnected ticketing is a...

Re: Acela II (Alstom Avelia Liberty): Design, Production, Delivery, Acceptance

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:18 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Acela II (Alstom Avelia Liberty): Design, Production, Delivery, Acceptance ¦  Replies: 1634 ¦  Views: 288598

Doesn’t matter. At those speeds, by the time you hear it, you’re probably dead anyway.

Re: Acela II (Alstom Avelia Liberty): Design, Production, Delivery, Acceptance

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:45 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Acela II (Alstom Avelia Liberty): Design, Production, Delivery, Acceptance ¦  Replies: 1634 ¦  Views: 288598

Thing about European train horns, is when you hear them, it’s often a sign to hang on…

Given the performance of that thing geared for 160, geared for 100, and a few more doors, it looks almost like it could be an arrow III replacement ;)

Re: Obscure Facts about SEPTA

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:36 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Obscure Facts about SEPTA ¦  Replies: 38 ¦  Views: 4445

The Amish probably would have built a better platform at 1/3 the cost, and in a few days.

Re: SLE sets banned west of new haven

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:06 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: SLE sets banned west of new haven ¦  Replies: 16 ¦  Views: 3442

Been on plenty of the old LIRR diesel crap with open doors between stations (the longer Montauk runs used to have folks smoking off the vestibule of the last car, bouncing through Nassau and all) The British are weird about train doors, at least one series has manual doors you need to open from the ...

Re: Obscure Facts about SEPTA

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:51 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Obscure Facts about SEPTA ¦  Replies: 38 ¦  Views: 4445

Well, there’s the answers…

Re: What happens if the Acela I doesn't make it to the finish line...

 by Nasadowsk ¦  Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:37 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: What happens if the Acela I doesn't make it to the finish line... ¦  Replies: 25 ¦  Views: 3074

Amtrak needs to buy back the Amfleets in private ownership, shop them so they can run 100mph or greater, put comfortable coach and parlor seating in them, and have them ready to go. Unless there was any clause in the sale saying they can buy back at X price, if I were an owner of one of those cars,...

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