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The second locomotive is there as a cab car because there aren't enough cab cars to go around. I presume it's up to the individual engineer to decide whether they want to engage the second loco for propulsion. But a second locomotive is a lot heavier than a cab car, so it's possible they would want ...

I can't tell what in Alstom's portfolio is their proposal, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't based on their Avelia platform. Thanks for the insight about Siemens, glad to hear it. As far as Alstom, maybe they should try to deliver at least one Avelia trainset successfully first before signing up fo...

2 trains by 2028 seems doable to me.

The bigger question is that the performance requirements for these exceed anything that's currently shipping, and their total order is for a massive…6 train sets?

Seems like a lot of squeeze for very little juice.

The ridership isn't there and you'd be sinking even more money into a very non-profitable operation. This was a line built for political reasons and the results speak for themselves.

Plus you'd need buy in from CSX to do it.

NJT/NJDOT owns a good amount of its non-NEC trackage. I personally wasn't surprised by the numbers because a train carrying hundreds of passengers requires an engineer and a few conductors. A bus can carry at most, what, 80 people per employee? And probably travels fairly empty most of the time anyw...

River Line was bid out as a design-build-operate contract, and is therefore operated by Alstom under contract to NJT. The operators are Alstom, not NJT, employees. That's why they don't have the same benefits.

NJT publishes a fact sheet annually with a summary of their ridership statistics. It includes a systemwide farebox recovery ratio. The most recent edition is available at https://content.njtransit.com/sites/default/files/FY23%20FACTS%20AT%20A%20GLANCE.pdf and covers July ‘22 through June ‘23. It cla...

Not to go too far off topic but every Tesla ever made supports FM radio. Some older ones supported AM as well. The only service my model 3 has needed in over 5 years of ownership has been new tires, new wiper blades, and new cabin filters (the latter two I do myself). And the super charger network i...

As far as metal tubes and carriers, I can't believe it but the MTA somehow managed to do this without too much trouble: https://www.masstransitmag.com/technology/miscellaneous/press-release/53078960/metropolitan-transportation-authority-ny-mta-mta-upgrades-cellular-service-at-grand-central-madison-a...

Caltrain presently has no more than 4 trains per hour per direction at SJ. Don't think there's going to be much of an issue slotting another train in there.

LAUPT is owned by LACMTA, not sure why Amtrak would be involved. Caltrain has a farebox recovery ratio of 22% and would be wise to accept pretty much anything in return for funding given their approved 2025 budget is expecting a deficit of 36M.

Yep, no one is going to certify stuff behind the wall without ripping apart the walls first. You should look into how "successful" rezoning has been in California. There is no builders remedy and people manage to block development that doesn't even require variances in existing zoning. Ac...

Yep, no one is going to certify stuff behind the wall without ripping apart the walls first.

You should look into how "successful" rezoning has been in California. There is no builders remedy and people manage to block development that doesn't even require variances in existing zoning.

Renting out non-permitted residential units which can almost certainly never be legalized due to zoning regulations.

And somehow making their liability policy pay out for anything that happens as a result.

Sure, they could recoup it instantly.

The annual report's primary purpose is financial summaries which are required to be done at a company wide level, not line by line. Plus certain expenses can't really be allocated to a single line, if a locomotive that's used on 5 lines breaks down and needs to be repaired, which line do you assign ...