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Turns out the CT Commuter Rail Council meeting back in May discussed this. From that meeting's minutes: Update of M8’s running east of New Haven: CDOT is continuing to work with Sistra, a consultant. CDOT is looking at the power demand. The project is taking longer than expected. Amtrak believes the...

By coincidence, a Bloomberg article answered some of my questions. Although also somewhat of a trip report, it appears the writer's main point is the money; appropriately enough the article appears on: Bloomberg.com The Amtrak That Works, and the Amtrak That Doesn’t Its long-distance trains are exp...

Looks like the dual-mode trips will not be returning in September after all:



From the July 2019 LIRR and Metro-North committee meeting handbook, page 90: http://web.mta.info/mta/news/books/pdf/ ... _MNRLI.pdf

This thread might not be the most appropriate place for these questions, but I didn't really see a better thread and figured these questions were not worthy of their own threads: So alongside the ALP-46, is the ALP-45DP also capable of traversing all three catenary systems used in the area? What abo...

The "singles" are trailers,at best,2pairs with the single between them,a 5 car set for SLE Amtrak' complaint has been the M-8's ACSES gear,might be a moot point as the New Haven line's ACSES goes online. :wink: Is the ACSES system on the M8s not up to par with what Amtrak desires? the 14 ...

I suspect the padding in 64's schedule between Schenectady and Amsterdam is more due to freight interference. According to the Amtrak Status Maps/ASM website train 64 typically leaves the U.S. side of Niagara Falls on time (Going back to January 2010, average delay leaving Niagara Falls is 5 minutes...

So July 14 will be the last weekend DM run? No. May 19 will be the last weekend dual-mode run. The schedule from May 20 to July 14 will have no weekend dual-modes as RestrictOnTheHanger mentioned. If the Montauk Branch sucking up all the diesel equipment for its weekend summer service is the cause ...

Some minutiae from last month's timetable changes - the March 2019 schedule retimed most eastbound Huntington/Port Jeff trains on Saturdays and Sundays. The retiming allows the two westbound weekend dual-mode trains (now 8:53 AM and 10:23 AM from Port Jeff) to leave Port Jeff 10 mins later, so that ...

A change that should have happened years ago, but better late than never.

It's things like these that give you hope the MTA and CDOT can actually change for the better.

Sounds like this is Governor Cuomo's proposal from two years ago to place a station at Brookhaven National Laboratory. http://www.mta.info/news/2017/01/10/governor-cuomo-proposes-120-million-enhance-16-lirr-stations-and-improve-system" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Governor...

I haven't taken that specific train myself, so I can't answer definitively, but according to the MTA's GTFS data (which is used in apps like Google Maps or Transit) it's currently scheduled to use the Babylon/Montauk branch. No idea if that was always the case. Not directly related to your question,...

This is weird. The project's original URL http://web.mta.info/lirr/doubletrack/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; now redirects to LIRR Double Track Project Farmingdale to Ronkonkoma – A Modern LI at A Modern LI – LIRR Modernization Program . Here's the link to past versions ...

The TBD schedule also has the 6:07 AM eastbound weekday train from Penn extended to Ronkonkoma, arriving at 7:26 AM, instead of terminating at Farmingdale like it does currently. This conveniently also provides a connection to 7:30 AM scoot from Ronkonkoma to Greenport.

A very important expose on high construction costs was published by the Times this week. Front page article. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html?_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I feel like the public is helpless to deal w...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has withdrawn from the Gateway Program Development Corporation board: New York Daily News article Wall Street Journal article (paywalled) “It is not DOT’s standard practice to serve in such a capacity on other local transportation projects, and DOT’s Trustee has...