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The whole thing is simply pathetic. Honestly, ALB-NYP should be at least under 2-hours and then ALB-BUF 5. To do that, you'd need to build at least 1 and maybe two new tracks between Spuyten Duivel and Poughkeepsie. Metro-North has trains on its tracks, and their trains' average speed isn't going t...

[[ That outer track looks very much out of alignment, so who knows how long that will take to fix, and then possibly slow orders after it is fixed. ]] The "outer track" to which you're referring is track 4, which runs on the other side of the island platform at Spuyten Duyvil station. It'...

All of the other departures [after 11:48] have trip durations only slightly longer than normal, so they seem to be more or less back to normal. The scheduled 5:15 PM is the only one which still hasn't left, but it is set to go at 5:45. FWIW, I just saw my son off at Croton at 18:25 (to ALB), on the...

FYI, there's a long discussion thread in the Metro-North forum , with some impressive pictures. AMTRAK- related question: Does anyone know where on-line to get up-to-date Amtrak status? The service alert on http://www.amtrak.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; still says NYP...

The main train on the New York-New Orleans route was the Crescent... My recollection from the days when I rode that route -- the mid 1960's -- was that there were (at least) three trains: The Southerner , which was the top-of-the-line train, The Silver Crescent , which was also a first-class train,...

Also these cars have been constant headaches for freezing up in cold weather since day one. Tell me about it. I remember riding from GCT to Chicago in December in a roomette where the toilets had frozen up and were overflowing. We at least had a bed; the people who paid for compartments ended up ri...

I cannot see a rational investor putting a cent into this. Rational investors generally won't invest in new technologies that aren't already proven or look (to an investor's eye) similar to something already proven. That's why major research and development is always promoted and funded by a govern...

I don't ride the NH line, but I gather from the MN website and from this morning's paper that they did indeed restore normal service yesterday. I'd expected to see the news spread all over the papers, the blogs, and railroad.net, but there's hardly a peep. No inside stories, no blow-by-blows of the ...

Why would anyone in their right mind want to rent a car in Manhattan anyway??? . Same reason people rent cars at LaGuardia or JFK. To get to places outside of NYC. Surely anyone looking to travel anywhere other than Lower Manhattan by rental car would get off at a prior stop anyway. Which "pri...

Current major rail stations in the Northeast, are generally right in the middle of the city downtown, with little available land. Where exactly would you put a rental car lot in NY Penn, for example? . Where do Hertz and Avis put their Manhattan rental car lots? (That's a rhetorical question, BTW.)...

RearOfSignal wrote:You'll probably see M8's all over the H&H for a while, had some in NWP already.

Door to door for HSR can be pretty straightforward also- HSR stations can have rental car service just like airports (the bigger cities with downtown stations like on east coast we assume have adequate public transit and taxi service). (Emphasis mine.) But will they (have on-site rental car service...

CHANGSHA, China — The cavernous rail station here for China’s new high-speed trains was nearly deserted when it opened less than four years ago. Not anymore. Practically every train is sold out,... I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove. I would expect the demand on day one for any new transpo...

According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) in 2011 ... the farebox recovery ratio[s] for the three Metropolitan Area agencies are: LIRR - 53.4% MNR - 62.3% NJT - 59.1% I'm no expert on public transport economics, but those figures don't look all that bad. Assuming the cost s...

lirr42 wrote:Yeah, they probably had a bunch of M8's sitting in GCT that they couldn't send out on the NHL so they probably sent a set or two out on the H&H just to relieve some congestion.