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Where: Trains Last chance to ride VIA’s Budd RDCs The days of the five serviceable Budd RDCs (Rail Diesel Cars) remaining on VIA Rail Canada’s roster may be numbered. As Siemens Venture equipment displaces the stainless and LRC coaches (and F40s and P42 locomotives) on the Windsor-Quebec City corrid...

$$$: Neo-Trans.blog Amtrak seeks $300m for Great Lakes-area stations Cleveland and other Northern Ohio cities would gain new, larger train stations from a program proposed by passenger railroad Amtrak to improve its intercity services here. The program, a five-year, $300 million Great Lakes Stations...

Interesting page: https://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/42nd-street-mega-station 42 St Port Authority (A/C/E) and Times Sq-42 St (N/Q/R/W/S/1/2/3/7) have always been one station (as in they are connected inside the paid area), and in 2021, the MTA opened a new tunnel that connects Times Sq-42 St (N/Q/R/W...

Seattle - Portland (amongst others): LiveMint.com Forbes covered Wes Edens' remarks as well, but that article was pay-walled. Also mentioned were Charlotte-Atlanta, Dallas-Houston-San Antonio, and Chicago-St. Louis. He didn't specifically SAY Brightline was interested, and BL has to get Tampa and Ve...

Who pays?: OrlandoSentinel.com IMNSHO (lol) it seems clear at a minimum SunRail (or whoever funds SR) should fund the link from their line to the airport. A combination of Brightline, SR, Universal, the Convention Center (or whoever funds CC) and Disney should be on the hook up to Disney Springs. Af...

My choice would be the Jerome Avenue Line, although I would miss coming out of the tunnel by Yankee Stadium. I think this neighborhood would greatly benefit by the removal of the el. Of course, it's also parallel to the Concourse Line, which is a subway.

After that, the White Plains Road line.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 $...

...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...

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Also, NJ will get a cut: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/traffic/tran ... y/5329601/