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Will there be separate peak and non-peak fares similar to Metro-North?
Will there be through ticketing to points beyond New Haven?

trainbrain wrote:Looks like all of 6th Ave is closed this weekend

If your figures are correct, then 2,533 weekday riders divided among 34 trains = 74.5 riders per two-car trainset or 37.25 per car. BUT 2,500 weekend riders divided among 10 trains = 250 riders per two-car trainset or 125 per car (or perhaps 83.33 per car for a three-car trainset). How is this possi...

rr503 wrote:discussion of reincorporating the beloved RFW.

They're scheduled both because the merge at 42nd can't take more trains, and because 2nd ave needs more servic than just the Q can provide. Makes sense that 2nd Ave needs more frequencies during rush hours. All those trains go to 96th usually during GOs and reroutes simply because its the easiest a...

During rush hours, a small number of N trains are regularly scheduled to be rerouted from the Astoria line (via 59th Street) to 96th Street (via 63rd Street). N trains normally cross over from the express track to the local track between 34th Street-Herald Square and Times Square-42nd Street and sto...

Thanks for the explanation, rr503.

Are there any other "fast" stations?

In a YouTube video I'm watching ("NYC Subway HD: Budd R32 A Train Railfan Window RFW Ride (Dyckman St - Lefferts BLVD) 6/24/15" posted by FanRailer on Jun 26, 2015), at time mark 57:15 I notice an unusual sign. An eastbound A express has stopped at Nostrand Avenue on the Fulton Street line...

I'm seriously wondering why a wye is needed at all. On a Downeaster trip last month, I traveled Portland to Brunswick on 685 and Brunswick to Boston on 682. The first trip involved backing out of the PTC after departure Portland, stopping, and changing directions on the main line to head north (east...

This talk of the Niles Sub and the Coast Sub has me confused.
Back when I lived in the Bay Area (thirty years ago), there was the Mulford Sub and the Decoto Sub.
When did the names change?
And which is which?

CNJGeep wrote:The North Low has also had a fence placed right in the middle of the platform running lengthwise.

Amtrak Status Maps is reporting that Acela 2250 left PHL at 10:48 this morning (Saturday) and arrived NYP at 12:06.

SEPTA still reports service on the Trenton line as "suspended until further notice."

Apparently the line is partially open again?

Was the NX line created to provide faster service to Coney Island? Why did they terminate it (I'm guessing that it would have some usefulness nowadays or have cars eliminated the need)? The NX was a rush hour service. It never got the ridership expected, partially because there aren't any express s...

In all fairness, the Asheville corridor simply does not have the kind of ridership potential needed to justify the expense of upgrading the line. Rail needs a relatively high population density to make it worthwhile, and only the string of cities from Raleigh to Atlanta can make it worth the expens...

MTA Publishes 2015-2019 Capital Program Fair use quote: The MTA's proposed 2015-2019 Capital Program is out. ... The proposed $32 billion Capital Program is designed to renew, enhance and expand the MTA network, which moves 8.7 million customers every day and makes the $1.4 trillion regional econom...