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The airlines are not going to be looking forward to trying to compete with this. This service offerring could fundamentally end business travel by air between Washington and New York. Ironically, I'll be flying from IAD to EWR this friday night, but I'll be connecting from a MSP flight. The choices...

NorthPennLimited wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2019 6:24 pm “We can neither confirm nor deny......”

That’s the best your top media relations guy can say about a federal embezzlement investigation? Why am I not surprised?

1. 12.5 Kv is close enough to 12 Kv that there will not need any rebuilding of overpasses and bridges as the present Amtrak system can take the slightly higher voltage. Remember the PRR CAT has already been thru 2 voltage increases. 11.0 Kv to 11.5 Kv by PRR late 1940s and 11.5 Kv to 12.0 Kv by Amt...

About becoming "FEC Tri-Rail"; remember every stop will add three minutes to the schedule. This factors in how overpowered (two SC-44, 8000hp) are the four car trains. Overpowered? Sounds more like they're just using a more European method of putting power onto the train. SBB puts about a...

So why can't we turn the 20 or so per hour NJT trains on tracks 1-4 only? Because NJT's rail operations are notoriously sloppy? Because if they did turn 20 trains an hour on 4 tracks, the arguments for ARC would have evaporated in a heartbeat? Because it's easier to scream "MOAR MONEY!!!"...

No driver judgment has ever been written into the laws. You can't run red lights on any street, ever, no way, no how. It is the hardest rule of the road. There is absolutely no interpretation in red lights. A few states have laws that allow you to legally run a red light after stopping. Typically f...

David Benton wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:04 pm I'm not sure about how common dorm space for crew is on Airplanes either.

Th e comparison to Europe, which is basically one set of infrastructure, is not apt. One set? Swiss trains have to change power at the German border, because neither country can agree on a pantograph type (even though they're the same voltage/frequency). Nevermind situations like France (two incomp...

Also, for roughly 1/10th the projected cost of Gateway.

"But all the towns and people seem To fade into a bad dream And the steel rails still ain't heard the news The conductor sings his songs again The passengers will please refrain This train has got the disappearing railroad blues" Steve Goodman First part of the song explains the problem: ...

Trainspot (TD): ALP44 2308 was a "gift" from Alstom back in 1995 for the long delay of the Norristown High Speed Line N5 cars - and was just retired by SEPTA in the past year. Actually, it was Adtranz, not Alstom. IIRC the N5s were late, overweight, and a few other issues. The M4s on the ...

Ok, thanks, that answers my question about whether the US is the only country still using legacy power. Guess those two will be buying heavy transformer-equipped power for a while too. Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Germany are all 15kv 16 2/3rd. All other AC systems out there are 50 or 60Hz, save f...

(itself caused by SEPTA being pennywise pound foolish). The Silverliner V cracks were due to faulty steel from a contractor of Hyundai Rotem, not SEPTA. Their money-grubbing had nothing to do with the SLV incident. The SLV cracks could have also been avoided if SEPTA allowed contractors to use a tr...

Wall Street Journal Sports columnist Jason Gay just "Had to get in the snipe": The USWNT fans were everywhere this past weekend in Paris; They were everywhere on the 45-minute train to Reims (fast, on-time trains—how odd for the Amtrak veterans among us!). I seem to recall somewhere that ...

Interestingly, they're going with body mounted traction motors, it looks like. IIRC, the Acelas have truck mounted ones. I'm wondering how much of this design is Amtrak getting the Acela's many flaws fixed, and how much was Alstom telling them "this is what you get"? Have any actual solid ...