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Since this has not been noted here, another step forward along the way:
https://www.rtands.com/rail-news/new-p ... annel=news

The infamous midtown traffic snarls during the UN GA actually mean that public transit use is higher than normal that week - and any weekday disturbance of operations at NYP would be that much more disruptive. By September it seems likely that commuting (and probably Amtrak's) ridership levels will ...

POTUS by tradition (or agreement) always speaks near the top of the card on the morning of the Opening Day of the UN General Assembly, which has long been on a Tuesday, and US presidents generally stay at least 2 nights in the area (usually in Manhattan) because they spend the rest of the day after ...

I was thinking about that and wondering if perhaps rough track conditions create momentary surges in the electrical systems onboard. It would seem to this speculator that if vibration is the culprit cause the effect would more likely be unanticipated levels of mechanical stress impacting transforme...

Now that the lawyering has died down on this subject, I will point out that in real life this is a matter of practical cooperation rather than legal fine points. As Dutch said early in this thread: ... NYFD is absolutely correct that safety is their concern , unless you want them on hold till first ...

A directly on point historical discussion of American electric locomotive design practice and performance in the context of the NE corridor is occurring concurrently in the PRR group on groups.io at https://prr.groups.io/g/PRR/topic/7131 ... &allview=1.

I can say from first hand knowledge that nothing of the original 1920 interior ornamentation of 370/7 survives. Whatever hints might have been left in lobby were eliminated in the last fairly major renovation (“modernization for the 21st C”) about 5-6 years ago. I would also strongly doubt (as there...

The preservation community is already fired up about tearing down 100 year old buildings for Penn South... Just a landlord's ploy for higher eminent domain price? My thought precisely. I worked in 370 7th (aka 7 Penn Plaza) until just a few years ago. I also support preservation of significant arch...

But anything that adds more capacity to NYP is probably a good thing. More than "probably", the lack of such additional station capacity is currently a/the major hurdle to getting Federal $ prioritized to Gateway projects. So this is potentially a very significant step toward overcoming t...

Time machine to early in this thread: This link to a 2011 or earlier drawing of initial Moynihan phases, which was posted here in 2013 (perhaps earlier in other threads) is still available. It was redrawn for clarity and attached here . The grand scale of the plans here certainly suggest it intends ...

According to the PRR Centennial History (commissioned by PRR in 1946 from Coverdale & Colpitts), on June 21, 1870 Congress extended to the Baltimore & Potomac perpetual use of the Long Bridge free of cost, the B&P being required to maintain the bridge and grant access to other railroads...

Ashland was addressed in the very first post over in the Virginia thread announcing the deal: post.
per the Richmand Times Dispatch article
:
"It will not expand the two-track rail line that runs through Ashland, which the state already has promised to preserve."

Does not sound good:

https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina ... le-durham/

Fair use:
“We Spent 20 Years and $130 Million on Light Rail. Then Duke Decided It Was Inconvenient.”

This raises the interesting question of what Amtrak has been using for heavy lift capability in the tunnels in New York since 1983? See: http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/amtk16000.html for much info about the history of the special heavy lift cranes used in the tunnels. Have they just been “...

An observation and a question. Great the derailment did not happen to a commuter train and a commuter was not on the adjacent track when the freight derailed. How does a train derail on what is an absolute straight run with no grade and no obvious source of water to undercut the track? There are sw...