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Who has the money? To quote a friend, “No bucks, no Buck Rodgers.”

Erik, It’s your turn. We need the local guy in this. How far out from the centers of Portland, Olympia and Seattle are the commuting rings? 50 miles? 100? 20? The smaller the radius, the less the need for inter urban rail. What is the local attitude to cooperation between Oregon and Washington? Bad ...

Or axed with a replacement order canceled... I was about (sore-y, abOOt :P ) to say “Saying the quiet part out loud that we all know”. However, I got to thinking and I now firmly believe the train will not be going away at all as long as there are tracks for it to run on. 1) When the FRA determined...

True but there’s also laws and ethics. Should they be able to do anything or engage in any business practice regardless of ethics and morality so long as it benefits shareholders? The FRA NTSB SEC are the keepers of morality for the railroad business. Welcome to consequences of Justice Douglas’ 194...

Eric and Tad, 60 odd years ago, the NP-UP joint service ran no fewer than five round trips daily Portland to Seattle. Amtrak, Brightline, or a consortium would need to do some things to drag cars off I-5 and put passengers on trains… 1) on hand Ubers. Most passengers need to get someplace else after...

But planes do not travel between city centres, intercity trains do. A highly overstated claim that is meaningless to the majority of America that does not live in city centers. Not to mention if we use the two largest metro areas that I am closest to, more people actually live closer to the airport...

I corresponded with Bob Webber, the curator of the Illinois Railroad Museum Library. Before Bombardier was consumed by Almstom, it sent the Pullman-Standard and Budd records, including erection engineering drawings, to IRM. Almstom has continued this, since it gets paper out of the company. There ar...

The press release by Amtrak does not mention bilevel cars except to mention that 400 Superliners and 49 Viewliners are undergoing interior refurbishment. From the Trains e article… Responses from manufacturers are due by May 17, 2024. The request is for bilevel equipment , “as it is Amtrak’s highes...

At least twenty years.

Why should BNSF maintain the track for 79MPH? All they need is 60. Also, Nebraska has but 4 Congresscritters and vitamin (one a day) service. No political advantage to passenger grade maintenance.

I'd think that if they could design the LD fleet to make it easier to take HEP from ground sources or onboard batteries for a couple of hours, it would allow far more flexibility in terms of through services if all LD trains were single level … That will not happen. Even the news release clearly sa...

My brothers in law live in vicinity of Cary and Round Lake. Why does not Illinois DOT build more overpasses to separate Metra from auto traffic?

Trains has announced Amtrak dropped the Superliner replacement RFP today. Click here to read the article: Amtrak issues Request for Proposals to replace bilevel long-distance equipment Brief quote: Amtrak’s release did not indicate whether the RFP specifies single-level or bilevel equipment, or wha...

Aristocratic?

Let’s show you what Union Pacific did on their coach/tourist Pullman train, the Challenger, in the 1930s.
Oh. Most everything on this menu, except the pies, was scratch made on board, not heated in a convection oven after pulling the item from a refrigerator.

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I’m going to refer you to the Union Pacific Historical Society, www.uphs.org. There may or may not be someone who can help you.

Admin note: Hyperloop One Inc has closed its doors. This topic is now moot.

Thread on Hyperloop one closing: hyperloop-inc-end-of-the-line-t176348.html