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Re: Looks like we need a new forum ...

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:27 am ¦  Forum: Worldwide Railfan ¦  Topic: Looks like we need a new forum ... ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 223

Savage Tooele Railroad: Construction Approved

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:26 am ¦  Forum: General Discussion: Short Lines, Industrials, and Military ¦  Topic: Savage Tooele Railroad: Construction Approved ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 215

PDF: https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/DCMS_External_PROD/1712006512380/52080.pdf DECISION Docket No. FD 36616 SAVAGE TOOELE RAILROAD COMPANY—CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION EXEMPTION—LINE OF RAILROAD IN TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH Digest:1 This decision authorizes Savage Tooele Railroad Company to construc...

Trip Report: Bedroom (Viewliner)

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:22 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Trip Report: Bedroom (Viewliner) ¦  Replies: 8 ¦  Views: 695

Not sure if this is a VL I or II: BusinessInsider.com I spent $1,000 for a 30-hour Amtrak ride in a private bedroom. Take a look inside the 45-square-foot space with its own bathroom. In October 2021, I spent 30 hours on an Amtrak train traveling from Miami to NYC. Since it was an overnight trip, I ...

shadyjay wrote: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:14 pm Hmmm.... perhaps an Admin could merge this topic with the one I started, you know, the one right below this one?

:wink: :-D
Whoops; missed that!

I might have used "paid post" vs. "propaganda", which implies negative intent. I know someone who's been on the Canadian trip, and raves about it.

Re: Francis Scott Key Bridge - Class I Impact

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:27 am ¦  Forum: General Class I and II Discussion ¦  Topic: Francis Scott Key Bridge - Class I Impact ¦  Replies: 61 ¦  Views: 4310

ADMIN: This topic should cover, as the title implies, Class I impacts due to the Key Bridge collapse. It should NOT discuss causes, demolition, or reconstruction, or reopening of the channel.

Coincidental time to resurrect the thread: Trains Plans for private San Francisco-Los Angeles overnight sleeping car service revived Dreamstar says service could begin in summer of 2025 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — The company seeking to start a luxury sleeping car train between downtown San Francisco an...

From the state of the city address: AtlantaNewsFirst.com 4 new MARTA rail stations coming to Atlanta, mayor announces ... Mayor Andre Dickens made the announcement during his annual State of the City address. He talked about how Ponce City Market was a catalyst for the revitalization of its neighbor...

Tri-Rail eyes expansion service to the VA center from its Mangonia Park station: Palm Beach Post The project is dependent on the county creating a permanent funding source for transit projects and negotiating a deal with CSX, the owner of the tracks that go from Mangonia to the VA Center. RIVIERA B...

Re: Amtrak to Long Island: MTA agrees to explore

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:15 am ¦  Forum: New York City Area Wide Rail Transit Issues (Cross-Agency) ¦  Topic: Amtrak to Long Island: MTA agrees to explore ¦  Replies: 192 ¦  Views: 38626

A lengthy opinion piece on Amtrak to Long Island: PedestrianObservations.com What does the author get right? Or do you disagree with the conclusion? Intercity Trains and Long Island Amtrak wants to extend three daily Northeast Corridor trains to Long Island. It’s a bad idea – for one, if the timetab...

Reminds me of Brewster North.....

Wonder what else they could rename? Perhaps the two Mt. Vernon Stations?

https://www.ctinsider.com/fairfield/art ... 373495.php

Wonder now that they've been discovered, will they be available for lease? https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/28/ex-caltrain-employee-contractor-charged-with-building-secret-homes-at-train-stations/amp/ REDWOOD CITY — A former high-level employee and a one-time contractor for Caltrain have been cha...

New Book: "Station", on railroad architecture

 by Jeff Smith ¦  Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:06 am ¦  Forum: Books, Magazines, Music, TV, and Movies, and other Media ¦  Topic: New Book: "Station", on railroad architecture ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 88

Book on Stations: Wallpaper.com Spectacular stations: a new book puts railway architecture back on the agenda ‘Station’ takes us through the very best railway architecture of the past 120 years, a sound case for putting more effort into this most civilised forms of transport Christopher Beanland’s n...

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