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The poster who earlier mentioned more for highways in Miami, actually in our area (Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach), the politicians are beginning to see the light and maybe sometime we will be spending on mass transit instead of just highways. The Miami Metro Rail system was extended abo...

Why don't you all get together, chip in and sponsor a farwell trip some time soon on a Saturday or Sunday so that everybody gets a chance to ride these fine cars. Split the cost among enough people and it should work. Insurance should not be an issue and it would seem to me that there would be ample...

One more thing regarding the Springfield Line, it is a key connection to the
northeast corridor at New Haven.
It serves a bigger purpose than first meets the eye.
Noel Weaver

If Guilford was getting all of the money needed to maintain their lines to passenger train standards, why was the Conn. River Line allowed to go to hell so bad that no passenger trains could operate on it and they ended up losing the line to Amtrak and then to the Central Vermont? I can't help but w...

There is no doubt in my mind that heavier rail should have been used in this case. This line is handling fast passenger trains, heavy tonnage freight trains and whatever in an area that can be subject to extreme temperature readings, as high as the 90's or better and below zero in the winter time. I...

I still think the present Penn Station is adequate, not a palace but adequate. Most of the passengers use it for what it is, a train station and not a home or a place to "hang out". Could it be better, of course but using the old post office is not the answer. Maybe an answer would be to g...

The third rail was left in place and energized for one reason, to enable a DC locomotive(s) to enter the North River (Hudson River) Tunnels for the purpose of wire train doing repairs and maintenance to the overhead wires. The P.R.R. kept a pair of DD-1's for this purpose for a long time and after t...

Item, when the M-2's were brand new and in their testing stages (burn-in) they were still technically owned by GE as the railroad did not accept them until they successfully completed the burn-in proceedure. GE leased a facility on the L.I.R.R. at Shea Stadium and did major repairs and also modifica...

In addition to longer crossing circuits, this may possibly result in the need to relocate a few signals although I have not ridden the head end on that line in over 40 years. In some cases a distant signal is too close to a home signal to permit higher speeds. Another item, I don't know about the re...

Although I am retired and no longer involved in the day to day affairs, my contacts and friends tell me a lot of horror stories concerning the lines that I worked. I have heard that maintenance on the Mohawk and the S.R. & B. has been cut, there are loads of slow orders and signal problems etc. ...

To add to the previous entries, station preservation and use is fine as long as the public has good service and good use of the facilities. Dallas is a fine example of a preserved (thank goodness) station which is serving the public very well. I was there last month and was very impressed with the j...

Dear Irish, Please do not get me wrong, I really appreciate nice old railroad stations. Some that come to mind include: Grand Central; 30th Street, Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Newark, N.J.; New Haven; South Station, Boston; Los Angeles; Rhinecliff, N.Y. (smaller but really nicely restored) and o...

I have ridden trains out of both Pennsylvania Station facilities in New York many times and worked trains out of them for a long time too in the past. There is not much difference in the amount of floor space between the old building and the new building. Biggest difference is that the wasted air sp...

Sorry but I must dis-agree with some of you who seem to favor using the post office building as an expansion of Penn Station. This project will cost millions which would be much better spent in track, signal andn equipment improvements. Up-state New York is getting squeezed by the feds., state, Amtr...