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The AT&ST high levels have a 2nd floor that is about 8 inches lower than Superliners. That is a built in stumbiling location. Lower ceiling height could be a head knocker for tall persons. Both these problems going or coming into cars. Stumbled more than once going from Pacific Parlour to super...

people in those service sectors have been used to customers being rude or unreasonable for the reward of a pittance and a receipt scrawled “I didn’t tip because you didn’t smile enough”, but now have the added burden of being obliged to either attempt to enforce health rules (where state or local go...

Exo apparently have notions of acquiring the St Jerome line between Blainville and Parc metro and electrifying it, but that still seems more on an ALP45 project than an MR-90 one, unless they built a depot just for the EMUs and had people transfer for downtown destinations at Parc. https://www.lapre...

Caltrain electrification delayed to 2024
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/202 ... plications

It is time for some of the $28B going to freight RRs to get rid of some of the bottlenecks. The taxpayer should be dismayed at the notion that they pay to reinstate the track capacity that PSR zealots ripped out, surely? In what other mode of transportation is the hauler permitted to determine the ...

A western company called Rider Express, which expanded to fill some of the void left by the 2018 Greyhound cuts in the prairies, has announced its intentions to open routes in Ontario and Quebec
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyho ... -1.6026564

Hard to see VIA taking P42s, when their own P42s seem a more logical disposal on the arrival of their SCB-40s than the more recently rebuilt F40PHs. Why keep three sets of parts around if you can have two? I guess some of those parts could be retained in MMC/TMC for Maple Leaf/Adirondack/extended Ve...

Can't offer any personal experiences of Amtrak, just here to share birthday wishes offered by its Canadian cousin: https://www.facebook.com/viarailcanada/posts/4200800829938890 (For those without Facebook, VIA offers Amtrak their wish for 50 more years of success, accompanied by a picture of F40PH 6...

All this talk of building a new line - did Chrystia Freeland have any money for the airport station in the existing project in her budget? https://www.obj.ca/article/local/tourism/facing-70m-deficit-ottawa-airport-calls-feds-fund-lrt-station-rapid-covid-19 Hard to say that there can be so much enthu...

I don’t know if Northlander is coming down the tracks for real, but the next Ontario election sure is (no later than June 2, 2022), it wouldn’t be surprising to see this be one of many goodies ladled out in the next 9-12 months, not least given it as a very public promise before the last one. I stil...

They could be used in Toronto, whenever Metrolinx actually manage to string wire, but closest service fit would be as a replacement for the 18 (newer) Nippon Sharyo Tier 4 DMUs to Pearson Airport, especially if Metrolinx could make some $ reselling them to Sonoma Marin or Portland. A large impedimen...

Five of the RDCs (6111, 6135, 6138, 6148, 6205) have been acquired by Waterloo Central Railway. Chris Fox of Rapido Trains has been making videos of the work required to make the cars fit to be hauled to their new home, given that two of the units had not run for 30 years. Here is one where he does ...

Oh that’s the AMT125 proposal from the 1970s, not the 80s. It was supposed to be something like a GP39-2H (with a 12-645T rated around 2300 hp) wrapped in a tight North River Tunnel-size shell. EMD intended it to be the American answer to the British Rail InterCity 125 or the MLW/Bombardier LRC, wi...

While Biden has oft been known by Amtrak Joe, his main usage of their service is as an NEC commuter. Has he even been known to travel LD (as an LD route, not spare seats on a Silver Service etc) It might shed some light on whether he (and a continued Dem House) is likely to benefit Amtrak generally,...

Are the Wisconsin Talgo 8s now out of the mix even as temporary replacements?