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Re: Official "Maple Leaf" Thread

 by Silverliner II ¦  Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:14 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Official "Maple Leaf" Thread ¦  Replies: 464 ¦  Views: 31978

Taking 63 tomorrow morning from CH to Buffalo. Coach was $109; I'm trying the bid-up to Business at $36. Trip report to follow. Looking forward to it.... I'm curious to see how long the current 6-car setup remains. They're going to need some of that Amfleet II back from there and the Midwest when t...

Re: Official "Maple Leaf" Thread

 by Silverliner II ¦  Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:34 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Official "Maple Leaf" Thread ¦  Replies: 464 ¦  Views: 31978

Taking 63 tomorrow morning from CH to Buffalo. Coach was $109; I'm trying the bid-up to Business at $36. Trip report to follow. Looking forward to it.... I'm curious to see how long the current 6-car setup remains. They're going to need some of that Amfleet II back from there and the Midwest when t...

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 by Silverliner II ¦  Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:03 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Official "Maple Leaf" Thread ¦  Replies: 464 ¦  Views: 31978

Thank you. Am I correct that this train always runs with Amfleet II coaches? Is there such a thing as Amfleet II business class or would they end up putting an Amfleet I business class on there (which would be a waste of my upgrade money). There is no Amfleet II business class. The normal consist f...

Re: MBB Overhaul

 by Silverliner II ¦  Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:28 pm ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: MBB Overhaul ¦  Replies: 179 ¦  Views: 45283

MBTX 514 is leaving NJ. Coming home As of the morning of 9/1/2022, the 514 was still sitting on the interchange track in Manville, waiting patiently to be picked up to begin the trip home. 514 was picked up (finally) sometime between the afternoon of 9/1 and morning of 9/3, as it was gone when I pa...

Re: MBB Overhaul

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:06 pm ¦  Forum: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) ¦  Topic: MBB Overhaul ¦  Replies: 179 ¦  Views: 45283

As of the morning of 9/1/2022, the 514 was still sitting on the interchange track in Manville, waiting patiently to be picked up to begin the trip home.

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:01 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

8th Notch wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:43 pm Mafersa cars are good for 90, the only time we were limited on the SLE sets to 80 is when the Geeps were leading. The good thing about the M8s also is they are good for train type B speeds vs the prior sets being limited to C speeds.
Roger. Saved me from digging out my ETT tablet.

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:24 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

Not likely about the impediment. I read somewhere (might have been further up in this thread) that the obstruction is part of a bridge structure, so that can't be changed. Where? How did something get built literally inches from the plate clearance? The bridge in question is in East Haven, but I sa...

Re: Septa push pull overview

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:16 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Septa push pull overview ¦  Replies: 224 ¦  Views: 60070

Looks like most of the push-pulls are not running. Checking the SEPTA Real Time, yesterday afternoon I saw only one, on Paoli-Thorndale, train #1593. Anybody know what happened? I saw the West Trenton, Trenton, and both Thorndale sets roll on the afternoon of the 22nd while I was on the High Line w...

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Sat May 28, 2022 8:14 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

west point wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 11:38 am Cannot imagine the problems adding platforms on active tracks.
It's not really a problem, since they're working to the side of the ROW... no island platforms involved. It all came down to available funding at the time.

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri May 27, 2022 11:16 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

What is with all these short platforms? With conventional coaches, they could platform all doors to access a 4-car train (except the ones on the far ends of the end cars) with no issue with the short platforms. You should have seen how it was with the original station platforms when the service fir...

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri May 27, 2022 7:11 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

when i rode yesterday and this morning the crews were using the door controls like MNR does. On the way home they mad us all group up to two doors. the Conductor claimed the FRA does not allow Amtrak to use the door control and they need to man a door I did some video fanning on SLE this morning. R...

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri May 20, 2022 10:11 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

nomis wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 9:39 pm M8 - 90mph east of New Haven.
A wee bit better. I forgot they did that on segments of Metro-North before they reduced all their 90mph territory to 80mph.

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri May 20, 2022 9:37 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

Perhaps the lack of faster times are 1. Not all trains will be M8 sets initially, so the schedules still have to assume diesel speeds. 2. If the M8's are still limited to 80mph by Amtrak, that would also make sense for no decrease in times. But that sure does not account for the odd padding mentione...

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Fri May 20, 2022 9:32 am ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

Is there any chance Amtrak will remove that one impediment to the 3rd rail shoes? Otherwise, how is MNRR going to get those cars for overhaul to the maintenance facility at Croton? I suppose that the shoes could be installed at New Haven to allow ferrying to Croton? Not likely about the impediment....

Re: M8's and Shore Line East

 by Silverliner II ¦  Thu May 19, 2022 8:35 pm ¦  Forum: MTA Metro-North Railroad and CtRail Passenger Rail (SLE, Hartford, Extensions) ¦  Topic: M8's and Shore Line East ¦  Replies: 371 ¦  Views: 112926

May 24th is the date for M8s beginning service on SLE. No thru trains to STM or GCT at this time. Of course, since the M8 sets assigned to SLE will be devoid of third rail shoes, there will not be any thru trains to GCT under any circumstances. I guess I know what I'll be doing on either the 27th o...

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