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Does this quote mean Dock will no longer open? " installation of straight steel rails to replace moveable miter rails, " Yes. To confirm, can go to the NEC Commission website, then to the document library and download the Appendix to the NEC Capital Investment Plan (FY 2023-2027). On the ...

Once the Silver Line is complete, would I be able to walk to the big air museum from the Metro? In the past I've made day trips down on Amtrak and taken it to the smaller museum on the National Mall, but obviously that's a bit easier to do from Union Station. In the future I'd like to do an overnig...

Coverage by the Bethesda Beat on the August 28 official ground breaking ceremony: Officials Break Ground on Long-Awaited Purple Line Project; Construction Immediately Starts . With the video clip of the Governor operating the excavator to knock down the building. Is it ever a good idea to allow a po...

While the Potomac Yard station project is moving ahead, it is encountering more delays. At this pace, the Purple Line could open first.... Washington Post: Potomac Yard Metro station delayed again, now likely to open in 2021 . Excerpts: A plan to build a Metro station in Alexandria’s growing Potomac...

I interpret $1.5b as "the Boardman Deal", which resulted in a net increase in Amtrak funding of about $0.4b (from $1.1b -ish), which doubled the funds available for NEC capital projects. Under the old deal, Amtrak might have gotten $.4b for NEC capital projects and $.7b for operating loss...

Why can't they admit the reason for the delay is to replace the floor due to poor construction work? They can blame the contractors for that. OTOH, it is NYC and NY state where the contractors are deeply embedded in the political swamp and the agencies don't want to embarrass the contractors. IIRC, ...

So....a 7% increase...that'll keep Amtrak slightly ahead of inflation? Is $1.5B for the 5 months May-Sep or is it an annualized figure? The $1.5 billion is the funding total for the fiscal year 2017. Even if there is only 5 months left to go in the fiscal year, I think that does not make much diffe...

's 2015 numbers for MSP, the move to St. Paul Union Depot from Midway Station actually cost the Empire Builder over 20,000 annual riders. 2012 had 115,100 arrivals and departures, 2013 had 112,100, 2014 had 89,700, and 2015 had 90,700. (The move was on May 7, 2014.) Hopefully the numbers in Springf...

The info on the delay for the Final Design Review is in the December 6, 2016 minutes. The First Article Inspections and tests are continuing on seats, tables, and food service components. How bad the FDR delay is and the impact on the testing & delivery schedules for the first test cars, not at ...

I think this remodelling will require another storage area for trains. I remember that there was the "Ivy City Yard" planned but I don't know where it would be and what came out of the plans. It was in the news last summer that VRE was investigating building storage tracks in an open spac...

I heard from a usually very reliable source that the current remodeling will reduce tracks from 23 to just 19. Any truth in that? A question is how many of the 23 tracks are currently in active use? As I recall from the Union Station Master Plan of several years ago, the lower level was proposed to...

The GAS website now has the ridership numbers for all stations for FY16. The fact-sheets on the Amtrak site are still for FY 15. The State Fact Sheets for FY2016 have been posted. So all the station passenger numbers can be assembled if someone is willing to put in the effort. With regards to the F...

What struck me as even a bigger game changer, and as a necessary one if all 1k and 4ks are gone, is 50 new 7000-series train sets by Dec. 2017. Or, in other words, 400 7000-series cars over the next 12ish months! No, they don't have to deliver 400 7K series cars over the next 12 months. About 240 o...

California will be leasing the two ex-Wisconsin Talgo trainsets to operate on the Surfliner route. That will help until all the bi-levels are delivered. Besides 88 cars of the initial 130 car order are going to the 3 Mid-west states which is a bit more than 2/3rds of the order. The states, the FRA a...

So it looks like they will have the trackwork done before they will have any Nippon Sharyo bi-levels to run on this route. Based on the info in the NGEC executive committee minutes, the Nippon Sharyo bi-levels, well assuming no more show stopper test failures, should be entering revenue service bef...