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That would be the 3 or 4 crossings on the 110 mph section between Albany and Schenectady. Not sure if there are also crossings on the 100 mph segment between Schenectady and Hoffmans, where it joins CSX and slows to 70.

Sorry, it was a long day and I forgot I had already said that, haha. My bad.

The Keystone Corridor also has at least one private crossing without gates (the one where a Metroliner cabcar slammed into a tractor a couple years back) but the Empire corridor is the only one I can think of that has normal non-quad crossing gates on public grade crossings over Class 6 track. Also ...

FRA regulations on maximum speeds have been repeated so many times on so many threads, maybe railroad.net administrators should post them here and place it at the top as the first thread to be read? That way questions like this one we would not have to rehash the existing regulations over and over ...

Allow me to clarify what I mean by Amtrak 2.0, because I don't really know what all that is referring to. Amtrak's three service lines at the moment are the NEC, state-supported corridor trains, and long distance trains. The long distance trains are to be killed, and the state-supported corridor tra...

charlesriverbranch wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:49 am Huh? Shouldn't a train that runs less than half as frequently have more cars, not fewer? What about using the extra cars to encourage social distancing?

Again, I don't think we need to do any of this. There was none of this constant existential crisis in the boardman years. The Amtrak 2.0 conspiracy has planted this idea in people's heads that the current system is inherently in need of major structural change. I would argue that it needs careful, m...

The Board, who are not all Trump appointees, and definitely not when they hired Mr. Anderson, has apparently decided that the LD's are simply not what 21st century passenger railroading is all about. I realize the cost to taxpayers to maintain them is a "rounding error" within the Federal...

I have to come out of lurker status on this one and generally agree with what was said by Amtrak706 about LD's experience and usage. There are many people that make the trip a part of they're overall vacation experience. Before Covid almost all LD sleepers were always sold out at least a month befo...

Refresh my memory, why is the US government in the business of providing intercity passenger train services? Good question.... Even though Americans had abandoned trains for their own cars or air travel by 1965, someone om Congress decided the Government needed to step in and keep trains running so...

How about we just go back to the pre-Anderson era and build off of that? Everything was more or less fine, there was no real existential threat to the LD network after the 2002 “glide path to self sufficiency” debacle until 2018 with Anderson. This whole thing is completely unnecessary, it’s so sad ...

I think the presently "suspended" Canadian and Ocean are done for. They are within the publicly funded sector, with apparently strong lobbies from the tourism industry. But, in the case of The Canadian, it's scheduled has been lengthened from some 72hrs to now over 100hr - and it can't ev...

Why do we have to submit to defeat like this? Most Americans have traveled by car for 50+ years at this point, so nothing is really that different in terms of LD trains’ viability now than at the start of Amtrak in 1971. Yet they survived, and at times were even expanded and improved. Someone is (or...

Weren't the ALP45-DPs created for the concept of using the pans as the primary source and the diesel for last mile? If true, that would mean fuel efficiency was secondary, almost immaterial. Yes, I understand "last mile" here is a bit of a misnomer particularly on the Raritan Valley line ...

Wow, I was in the process of making a post about this exact thing! You beat me to it by three minutes. Yes, there is no such thing as "keeping it all AC". This thread has some description of the intermediate DC link as implemented in the ACS-64. http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/743/t/217694.asp...