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No, but that's because my automobile is primarily a weekend gettaway machine rather than a primary means of transportation. I and my spouse walk to work. If I didn't live within walking distance I would bike

Did they continue pumping water into a river that was in flood stage, causing flood damage, instead of letting it naturally spread which would have caused flood damage in a drained area? The flood waters in Abbotsford are not from the main river in the area, they're from the flooding of the Nooksac...

I might have been over reacting with my comments about Amtrak not maintaining the wires anymore. But I do wonder if Amtrak has the same thoughts. I hope they hang more wires for the future if service demands it. they're not getting rid of the wires because they need them for Acelas. But this is def...

I simply cannot imagine that Amtrak would take a situation where they have the political confidence to turf all those sprinters only to replace them with...duel mode locomotives. Like if you're going to junk the sprinters get some modern EMUs! If you don't like how long it takes to couple up a diese...

While I'm happy to see this, I think Amtrak really should be using this opportunity to pitch a 'minimum service standard' for corridor trains, every two hours or better, work your way up to meeting and exceeding car travel times for conventional speed routes. It seems that sort of service level is r...

as a resident of a 12 year-old stick-frame three-over-one building for the last 8 years, I'm reasonably pleased with the sound proofing for internal noises. The occasional foot steps but I've never heard anyone's voices.

Now if there were diesel locomotives moving by I might have a different story

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwZNlOWXEAAwd62?format=jpg&name=large The Canadian National Railway Company was kind enough to provide an opportunity for live demonstration of the sound insulating qualities of this property. Incidentally, the diagonal power line right of way in the upper right corn...

... the Class 1s also may, understandably, want some extra (and perhaps more fair market-based) payments to give Amtrak back their timeslots. I hope not. Those slots were not abandoned and have only been unused for a few months. For example, the Talgo funeral train was technically a non-revenue Coa...

Update: have asked the realtor to arrange a viewing for a condo in the neighbourhood overlooking Willingdon Junction, from 25 floors up. May be able to swing the Mrs on this one

This was perhaps an inartful way of me expressing frustration as the notion that people here aren't aware that there are geometric constraints on train speed in addition to the track class and signaling constraints. It's like if we went back to 1968, and were talking about raising corridor speeds ab...

The issue between Harrisburg & Pittsburgh is the Allegheny Mountains. Having three tracks and proper two-platform stations will help but for faster service through the entire route... they got to tunnel and lay down more track. Yes, that pesky little issue of track curvatures and not the qualit...

Actually, I'm inclined to think that one result of Staggers was to make the railroads profitable enough to interest Wall Street, leading to an unhealthy preoccupation with operating ratio above all else; prior to Staggers nobody bought a railroad to make money. That was the problem, no? Pre-Stagger...

Philly Amtrak Fan wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:40 pm Why not just run more trains along the Coast Starlight route?

The issue with Tijuana or Juarez is passport control. Don’t expect speed from Customs and Immigration. 15 or so years ago I attended a business meeting in San Diego and stayed an extra day at my own expense. Among other touristy/railfan things I rode the lightrail from the Amtrak Station to Tijuana...

I checked with a friend who has a current UP timetable and verified that the CAPITOL CORRIDOR still has a maximum passenger train speed of 79 MPH. Freight speed is 70, so this should be Class 5 trackage. Andy Interesting, so at least in theory provided some grade crossing timer adjustments and a co...