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Indeed -- people dressed better than that in the coaches.

That's the key question; rear-enders are exactly what PTC is supposed to prevent -- even, if necessary, by sensing that the engineer isn't going to stop and preventing a collision before it happens. We'll have to wait quite a while before we see the NTSB report -- that part should be particularly in...

Difficult to cover operating costs by handling only those passengers who have no alternative. You need discretionary travelers.

Fwiw, the mayor of Philadelphia is going to require that all city workers come in 5 days a week: Because some, such as sanitation workers, building inspectors, etc. can't work from home; To provide feet on the ground to patronize local businesses downtown; To provide "eyes on the street" t...

I thought PTC was supposed to make collisions like this impossible Typical capitalist lie! Wait until they get their one man crew. Unless there was some unusual circumstance, there should have been two people in the cab of all three trains. A five-man crew couldn't have saved that third train.

I thought PTC was supposed to make collisions like this impossible Once the first 2 trains collided --for whatever reason -- and fouled the adjacent track, PTC could not have prevented the sideswipe of the wreckage if the 3rd train had come along soon enough afterward. PTC can't do the impossible; ...

"This offers the option to choose the direction in which they are most comfortable facing." Now that's Marketing; finding exactly the right shade of lipstick to put on the pig. Regarding walkover seats, the ones on the PRR P70's on what is now called the Corridor had well-upholstered seatb...

No, but there's a greater need for LA-SF nonstops to blow by Merced while a stopping train is in the station. It provides much more freedom in scheduling, thus increasing overall capacity.

That's been the case for centuries, and the laws of physics haven't changed. You need high ceilings, shade, and air circulation. I remember grade-school classes in the 1940s when classrooms had high ceilings, windows with upper and lower window frames, and a long wooden pole with a hook on the end w...

Another "camera on the rails" I can recall (never saw it firsthand) was when the Rock Island assigned their Aerotrain to the Peoria Rocket. On the "dolled up SW-1200" switch engine there was mounted a camera feeding to a closed-circuit TV (a 21" B&W) in the Parlor Car. ...

When looking out in a RR car or the back of the train I experience an unusual effect. After looking back for a while when looking forward it seems that the landscape is pulling away from me for a while. Lasts about 10 minutes. You are not alone there. Very common experience for most people. But not...

... and do it all under ground and under traffic. I wouldn't know how to begin. I don't know how they did it DeKalb.

I'm no longer getting old -- I've gotten there -- but I remember when those cars (described in the press as "clear, pure red") entered service, and my recollection, such as it is, is that they were not air-conditioned but had what was called forced-air ventilation, which moved the warm, fe...

I worked for PC and never met a co-worker, red or green, who liked the logo* (not to be distinguished by calling it a herald), and "mating" was not always the operative word at that time, although "worms" was there from day one. As a logo it lacked a needed feature: at a distance...

CLamb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:33 am I wonder if the seats will be locked into place or if the passengers will be able to rotate the seats themselves.