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There were definitely heavyweight PRR P-70 Coaches in service from A-Day until delivery of the A-I's during '75. Heavyweight "otherwise" in the Amtrak-era, I think not. Heavyweight on A-Day Eve away from the Corridor, here and there, but the train offs from '67 onward rendered most of suc...

All of the Amfleet, ones and twos need to retire. Amtrak is having to fabricate their own parts for these rolling museums. If you have to reuse equipment, it would be the Horizon fleet since they are newer. Imagine mothballing these 50 year old cars, better to let them retire and be razor blades, t...

These cars aren't compatible with current law in terms of door and window size. Unlikely that they go through any sort of major refit before being withdrawn from service.

There is, however, a simple safety feature: make the seats face backwards. <snip> but many passengers don't like them. I wouldn't necessarily call it a case of "not liking them" without expanding on it --- Many people have balance and/or motion issues with traveling backwards for long per...

I don't have any specific information, but there have been cases where a GPS has told people to turn and they turned onto the tracks instead of the following intersection. There have been documented cases of this actually causing grade-crossing accidents, particularly in situations where a road cro...

scratchyX1 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:45 am I want to paint it black

It is a bit surprising that the person in the video mentions that Amtrak isn’t buying cab cars for the trains that will serve Upstate NY. If that ends up becoming a done deal, where would the Ethan Allen be turned in Burlington. Believe it or not there's still a functioning roundhouse and turntable...

What I'm "in the dark" about at this time, is how much, if any, does this soon to be enacted legislation represent an "Appropriation" (you WILL spend this amount of $$$$ on these particular projects) or an "Authorization" (it would be nice to spend "this" on ...

There is about to be a *lot* more battery manufacturing in the US. For example, https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/09/27/ford-to-lead-americas-shift-to-electric-vehicles.html ; https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2021/06/16/gm-battery-plants/5293394001/ I ...

As for adding new tracks, I've always been told that the capacity of a station is nothing but the smallest of the following three capacities: the capacity of connecting railway lines, that of platform tracks and that of station throats. During the steam era, mainline trains were mostly locomotive-h...

I feel like the better way to solve NYP capacity issues is instead of building more tracks is to merge LIRR and NJT operations and run trains thru. The problem with Penn is that the current station is operating at something like 200% of design capacity. That has nothing to do, really, with NJT. Whe...

Wouldn't a tunnel also facilitate the development of ports on the island anywhere from Brooklyn in the east all the way out to Montauk? Unload the ships on the island right onto the train and express to the mainland. Quicker (marginally) time to port for the ships but also no worries about bridge c...

Also, according to Wikipedia, construction along the Farmington river was difficult, so they nicknamed it "Satan's Kingdom" Satan's Kingdom wasn't on the Canal Line main-- what's now the Farmington Rail Trail. It was on the Canal Line branch to New Hartford and, separately, the Central Ne...

Mr. Norman- Private placement municipal bonds are very, *very* rarely bought by individuals. Even extremely wealthy individuals who can meet Uncle Sam's definition of a Qualified Institutional Buyer (generally, $100mm in liquid assets.) The natural market for such bonds lies with institutional inves...

Downtown Bennington was never served by any of the Rutland through services between NY and Montreal. The track there was part of the Rutland's "corkscrew" division which went south over the hills through Petersburg and New Lebanon, NY to a junction with the B&A and the NYC's Harlem Div...