CPF66, thanks for the excellent and thorough report. Keep 'em coming!
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CPF66, thanks for the excellent and thorough report. Keep 'em coming!
A container port at the B&M site is pure fantasy. The Roux Institute has fully realized plans for their research campus and plan to start construction this year. The site isn't for sale and the obstacles to developing a container port on that site are too numerous to count. Thank you for being ...
ExCon90 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:36 pm I'm not familiar with Eimskip -- are they Danish?
That's cool. An interesting piece of Maine railroading history that would've been all too easily forgotten.
Unsurprising, considering that they are essentially a totally new type of locomotive. There are always teething problems to be worked out with new technology. Hopefully Wabtec will send some of their people up to Maine to figure out what's going on.
It could potentially work, but raising that kind of money for railroad-related causes is very difficult. Here in New England we've seen many examples of it taking years or decades to raise enough money just to restore a locomotive or a trainset (e.g. MEC 470, Flying Yankee)... and those are tiny sum...
From Progressive Railroading: Now called the CSX New England Zone, the former Pan Am system will receive additional investments and extensive work again this year, said Ed Sparks, CSX’s chief engineer-bridges, design and construction, in an email. . . . Much of the work is associated with a $17.5 mi...
The LSU monstrosity was generated by AI, which is why it has three different numbers and the smoke is coming from the roof of the cab.
I'm pleasantly surprised that it works at all, considering how difficult it must be to maintain a stable satellite connection from a train moving through urban communities. 5G (with fallback to LTE in non-5G areas) would likely be much faster, though. A journalist from Florida recently tweeted his e...
How much of an increase in ticket prices are you willing to accept for an improved Amtrak wifi system that supports video conferencing and 4K video? Alternatively, how much are you willing to pay for Amtrak wifi that isn't free? (For the sake of argument, let's say they charge for it in 4-hour block...
The passengers who complain the loudest about not being able to do Zoom calls or watch movies in 4K are generally people who can easily afford (and probably already have) an unlimited data plan from their own wireless provider and/or their employer can afford to set them up with a mobile hotspot for...
I hope the ET23s are headed for Maine... Rigby and Waterville could really use some better yard power than the ex-PAR junk, and the ET23s would also provide a welcome reduction in air pollution for folks who live near the yards.
Satellite is line-of-sight, so it might work in open farmland but probably wouldn't work in a lot of other areas. Cellular is not line-of-sight, and it can penetrate buildings/structures, which allows it to work almost everywhere. It also has a bandwidth advantage over satellite.
The Downeaster's wifi launched in 2008.
The Downeaster was also the first Amtrak train to offer electronic ticketing.