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At one time some years ago, Branson had one of his Virgin Record stores in the old Downtown Disney complex. That was also back when Disney had danceclubs and nightclubs there open until 2am located in an entertainment district built on an island (I wish I could remember the name of the island distri...

The 3 year ramp up period and revenue projections were in the 2015 EIS documents and certain lease documents associated with the GOAA (MCO) ITF station and Beachline ROW back in 2013. That was before the phase 2 segment was delayed and represented AAF's original schedule. The opposition from the Tre...

Let me throw this out there: Brightline today reaffirmed that they are on track to go forward with their expansion plans using a combination of debt and equity financing. https://www.wptv.com/news/state/despite-losses-virgins-trains-usa-brightline-says-its-full-speed-ahead This may come as a surpris...

Q3 Financial report is out. $2.9M revenue and 159k riders.

Brightline is indeed a brand name. The company that operates the train service now, Brightline Holdings LLC, was at one time called All Aboard Florida - Operations LLC and All Aboard Florida - Stations LLC. Back in 2015 they announced the service would be called (or branded) Brightline. For over two...

I posted this elsewhere as well: More news about airlines (probably mostly international) interested in adding flights into MCO because of Brightline having a station at the airport. I know many people disagreed with the decision to have the main Orlando station at the airport. With this news, it m...

As I posted on another forum today, I happened to find a document online today that spells out the amount of money Virgin is investing in Brightline: $30-50 million. If this reflects the 3% figure that was reported previously, then Brightline appears to be valued at anywhere from $1-1.7Billion. I a...

As I posted on another forum, November ridership numbers are out today:

80,660 riders and $1.5M in revenue for November 2018. 

The Brightline lease proposal to FDOT/CFXis out now. Lots of interesting stuff. High points: Meadow Woods Sunrail station will get a transfer platform so that Brightline riders can take Sunrail to access much more of Orlando. Also, Sunrail riders can get to the airport (or Tampa or Miami for that ma...

Brightline ridership in October is 60,013

Revenue for the month is at $1M

https://emma.msrb.org/MarketActivity/Co ... s/ES938646

Where to begin tonight. Brightline now Virgin Trains USA will issue an IPO. Here is the Miami Herald story https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article221806725.html The SEC filing is here https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1737516/000114036118043289/s002218x4_s1.htm It appears they will b...

Attached is the unsolicited Brightline proposal from March 2018. The rules of the RFP do not allow for the solicited proposal from yesterday to be released publicly until 72 hours after the selection committee meets on November 28. So that will mean Monday December 3rd is the earliest it will be ava...

Mr. Norman, it is unusual I admit, at how far AAF (now known as Brightline in their legal filihgs) has come. But you must remember that Florida is the 3rd most populous state in this country. Therefore, we do have some influence on what goes on in DC. Also, FECI is a large influence here in Florida....

Having lived in the Tampa area for over 20 years, I am well aware of the Silver Star. In my haste to post my comment last night I should have clarified that I meant that we would finally have meaningful and reliable and convenient passenger rail service between Tampa and Miami when Brightline expand...

Remember that shovel-ready Orlando HSR project canceled by Rick Scott in the first months of his governorship? Disgusting. What about this is disgusting? Is it how Ms. Klas intentionally omitted many facts in her article in order to support her tenous argument that Scott profited directly from AAF ...