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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/realestate/elevated-subway-tracks-lines-nyc.html For an upcoming project, The New York Times is hoping to learn more about New Yorkers who live in apartments or homes adjacent to elevated subway tracks. This makes me wonder if they are going to advocate the replace...

Re: Amtrak New Gulf Coast Service - New Orleans to Mobile AL

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:50 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak New Gulf Coast Service - New Orleans to Mobile AL ¦  Replies: 440 ¦  Views: 73172

Schedules: Fox10TV.com Amtrak lays out arrival, departure times for planned train service in Mobile Filing with Board of Zoning Adjustment also includes new details of temporary train station MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - In a filing with the city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment, Amtrak lays out new details of...

Rare Mileage Run April 2024

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:46 am ¦  Forum: Reading, Blue Mountain, and Northern Railroad ¦  Topic: Rare Mileage Run April 2024 ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 67

Trains.com has a write-up of a recent excursion that covered the entire length: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/sold-out-reading-northern-special-covers-rare-mileage/ MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. — For the first time in decades, a passenger train Saturday (April 20, 2024) covered the full len...

Re: The Interborough Express (IBX)

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:52 am ¦  Forum: NYCT MTA Subway, PATH and SIRT ¦  Topic: The Interborough Express (IBX) ¦  Replies: 64 ¦  Views: 10768

Street-running v. Cut-and-cover tunnel: Streetsblog.org MTA Plan to Run Brooklyn-Queens Train on City Streets a ‘Grave’ Mistake: Advocates A 515-foot tunnel beneath All Faiths Cemetery would slightly increase the cost of the project in exchange for "enormous" service benefits, a new report...

Still dead: TheBaynet.com Not So Fast: Maryland High-Speed Train Project Hits Skids ANNAPOLIS, Md. – One of the main selling points for constructing a $13 billion magnet-propelled train line between Washington, DC, and Baltimore is speed. Proponents envision levitating train cars going 300 mph and h...

Re: Wilmington Service to Raleigh

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:38 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Wilmington Service to Raleigh ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 810

Study completed: PortCityDaily.com Rail study estimates Wilmington-to-Raleigh passenger service would be $810M, connects through Goldsboro SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — An updated feasibility study is complete regarding the viability of passenger rail between Wilmington and Raleigh. According to the newly rel...

2025: CTPost.com Rehabilitation of Westport's Saugatuck Bridge, expected to cost $4M, should start in fall 2025 WESTPORT — The Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge rehabilitation project is moving forward, with work slated to start in fall 2025 and run through spring 2026. The project, expected to cost $...

Hokkaido Luxury Coaches

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:31 am ¦  Forum: Worldwide Railfan ¦  Topic: Hokkaido Luxury Coaches ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 45

...or carriages, if you will: soranews24.com Beautiful Red and Blue Star luxury trains set to be Japan’s new Hokkaido travel stars Hokkaido is Japan’s largest prefecture, and the Shinkansen only reaches a tiny corner of it. So more so than anywhere else in the country, if you’re traveling in Hokkaid...

Re: Amtrak to South Dakota

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:30 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak to South Dakota ¦  Replies: 28 ¦  Views: 2920

Unlikely: DakotaNewsNow.com Transportation Secretary throws cold water on South Dakota Amtrak expansion SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - While momentum for Amtrak expansion to South Dakota has been growing for months, the state’s Transportation Secretary is doubtful it will ever become reality....

New consultant: JournalTimes.com Racine partnering with consultant for KRM rail study RACINE — The City of Racine will move forward with a study for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee rail project with DB E.C.O. North America Inc. The Common Council approved a resolution Monday allowing the city to enter ...

Re: New Danbury Station

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:24 am ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: New Danbury Station ¦  Replies: 7 ¦  Views: 4698

The "new" Danbury Station sucks and not in a good way. Its never open and thereforth there are no bathrooms..we should go back to the old station..oh yeah you have to walk to the bus station as well rather then have all in one intermodal station. Speaking of a poor connection to bus stati...

Railbike Resources

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:43 pm ¦  Forum: Rail Trails & Rail Recreation ¦  Topic: Railbike Resources ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 116

NE Guide: AAA Magazine Railbiking is popping up everywhere. This four-wheeled open-air activity on abandoned railroad tracks or tracks set aside for heritage rail service is gaining steam (pun intended). This pedal-powered activity is one that most anyone can do and that rewards fun-loving riders wi...

LA Metro C-Line Green Line

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:07 pm ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: LA Metro C-Line Green Line ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 155

I only found one mention of the current extension and no C-Line topics. If there's one out there, post it here and I'll merge. Plan to be approved: Streetsblog Project page: https://www.metro.net/projects/green-line-extension/ Metro Looks to Approve Torrance C Line Extension Alignment Selecting the ...

Re: High Speed Rail HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth) (FKA Texas Central )

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:05 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: High Speed Rail HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth) (FKA Texas Central ) ¦  Replies: 315 ¦  Views: 100083

"Train Daddy" is for it: NBCDFW.com Amtrak is now driving Dallas to Houston bullet train proposal "This is very much a project that Amtrak is now leading," said Andy Byford ( aka "Train Daddy") , Amtrak's Vice President of High-Speed Rail Development ... According to An...

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