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It baffles me why the Cardinal and Capitol haven't been, out of necessity, rescheduled into a scheme similar to the Skeena where there is a overnight pause at Pitt for the foreseeable future. Then the need for a formal diner and baggage are eliminated, and you can have a string of 6-8 coach cars as...

Given that Amtrak crew attempt to tell you your seat when you board (at least on the Carolinian and Silver Star), they are assigning seats in coach when you board, but doing it in the slowest and most inaccurate way possible. Two months ago, the car attendant told me to use a specific seat, only fo...

Okay, in that case, I can see a celluar/wifi mesh in each car and Starlink in the cafe. Don't people realize that in a metal skin passenger car that you are in a Farraday cage, where radio waves cannot penetrate. You have to have an antenna outside the car, usually on the roof, and a cable into the...

I read that same review this past weekend. The narrow seats do sound a bit problematic to me. The seats are narrower for a reason, to make the center aisle wide enough for most wheelchairs or who otherwise require better accessibility access. You can not do both, wider aisles and wider seats, with ...

The LOSSAN corridor is the most travelled Amtrak route outside of the Northeast Corridor. However, to get it to remotely the standards seen on the Northeast Corridor, a lot of improvements would have to be made. These improvements include dual-tracking (at minimum), grade separation to eliminate al...

The ALC-42E/APV combination has some items that have not been disclosed except by speculation by some including my mistake to also speculate. 1. Will the ALC-42E be able to operate by itself without the APV connected? 2. What electric items will be in the APV? 3. Will APV have a HEP inverter? 4. Ho...

That makes me wonder, are they qualified to work on the ALC-44's (aka the Siemens Chargers)? VIA will have brand new Siemens Venture trainsets with SC-42 Siemens Charger locomotives long before Amtrak's Empire service Venture trains will have ALC-42E Siemens Charger locomotives. They will also have...

They need to lower that threshold in light of this accident back in 2018 . From the photos I could see from your link, it appears the tractor was hit at a non signal and cross arm crossing. I leave the possibility that was where the train came to a stop after hitting the tractor. Never-the-less, th...

The new Acela/Airo will be "nearly" fully built and prepared for Testing by the end of the year? Yikes, I would consider us already at this stage, was hoping for revenue service by the end of the year. Don't count your chickens before the eggs are hatched. Have any passed the latest round...

Mr. Dunville, I get your point; but every major airline in this world has withdrawn the 747 from scheduled passenger service. Of course, freight carriers and "airlines only the Defense Department knows" continue to fly "The Queen". Lufthansa still flies around 20 747 jetliners i...

Nasadowsk wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:18 pm Doesn’t matter. At those speeds, by the time you hear it, you’re probably dead anyway.

I could barely hear the horn over the inverters as the train was accelerating away from the Princeton Junction station near the end of the video. And I could barely hear the horns from a distance as the train approached the station early in the video.. I'm not so sure it meets the FRA required decib...

Dude how wrong do you want to be today? B&O had busses in quite a few cities making last mile connections such as Jersey City to NYC. You also have Amtrak connecting busses Also Burlington Trailways came out of CB&Q: "Burlington Trailways was founded in 1929 as the Burlington Transport...

Because, as noted above, a last-mile problem -- whatever the cause -- can result in Amtrak's losing an entire line haul (for want of a nail ... ); Amtrak has a lot to gain from finding a solution to this, proportionally to the potential ridership involved. Perhaps the question is really how many pa...

Because Brightline does something does not mean Amtrak has to do it too. Does Brightline run bus services inter city, like from Miami to Key West like Amtrak runs between LA and Bakersfield? Does Brightline run bus services between Orlando's Airport and Disney World? Does Amtrak? No! Local bus lines...