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Skepticism: Fox10TV.com Amtrak plans to return to Mobile, but will there be enough passengers? Skeptics point to company’s own ridership projections for proposed Gulf Coast rail service: 37 riders per train, per day Lease the operation out to Megabus. 37 pax doesn’t even fill a UP or ATSF 44 seat c...

The full board adjudication hearing will be June 25, in East Palestine. The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public board meeting on June 25 for the 2023 East Palestine train derailment​ and subsequent hazardous material release and fires. As for NS, I suggest they prepare… https://y...

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Wait for the appeals and injunctions. That train wreck is coming.

NEWS ITEM: BRIGHTLINE BREAKS GROUND [ Brief, fair use quote Treasury Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined state and federal officials Monday to break ground on a $12 billion high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles suburb Rancho Cucamonga. Brightline, the company building the railway, s...

Jeff Smith wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:05 am "Train Daddy" is for it: NBCDFW.com

Tuesday, the Amtrak leader gave a full-throated endorsement of the project, arguing it's the next best route in the country for high-speed rail.
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Greg Moore wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:36 pm I should note that Amtrak ran its standard length Adirondack with 4 coaches and one cafe care. I highly suspect they could have sold out more seats had they added a coach or two.

So Amtrak doesn’t have parts for its Siemens cars, and has to cancel trains. link here:
Parts Issues Lead to Amtrak Midwest Cancellations

American passenger railcars, from the time of the heavyweights, have had locks on the doors.

They are rarely used in revenue service, they are there to secure the cars from hoboes, thieve and other ne’er do wells in a coach yard.

Amtrak has signs everywhere, passengers do not operate doors.

This just in.

PDF for your reading here: https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot ... imer_0.pdf

For $1000 a night, I expect hand crafted martinis and a 14 Oz Kansas City strip. Amtrak no longer passes that test.

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When I was in the workforce, I travelled from Kansas City to such exotic spots as Seattle, central Texas, or Watertown New York. If I could have travelled sleeper (the Federal Travel Regulation no longer authorizes it), I’d have spent 2 1/2 to 3 days in transit. Flying, I went from KCI to Cincinnati...

Almost 6 months on…

The watch this space website has no tag to investors, no tags for RFP to procure cars from existing private owners, in other words, not a damn thing.

Anyone care to bet this is the 2023-25 version of the “Marlboro Unlimited?”

Has Amtrak ever heard of this concept called “sections?” The passenger operator runs multiple Trainsets for a specific train and date, each one operating basically one block cycle behind its leader. UP, ATSG, NYC, PRR, NP, GN, CB&Q … they were all capable of, and DID it. Why can’t Amtrak? Oh, th...