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A related question just occurred to me: was it contemplated that the B&A would also be electrified and have access to the lower level?

SEPTA rents out former living quarters in suburban stations for law offices, real-estate agencies, and other business purposes; maybe restrictions are less stringent for non-residential uses? Last time I was there, the former WP station on 3rd Street in Oakland was a law office. Back in the 1970's t...

... and a sleeper to LA is in no sense a competitor of CalTrain -- rather a possible feeder if there's a scheduled stop at San Jose Diridon, as there should be in any case. Maybe also in Palo Alto? The main issue would be slotting the northbound into the AM rush hour, particularly if the overtakes a...

Wasn't the Delair bridge extensively rebuilt not too long ago? I seem to remember that major work was done (perhaps in the 1960's) and again when passenger service to AC was restored.

I don't think Jamaica has a place to stash the Amtrak equipment between arrival and departure unless Tracks 4 and 5 could be used outside of rush hours. Also, only trains terminating at NYP could be extended to Jamaica, leaving lots of gaps in the hourly pattern. I can't help feeling that Amtrak tra...

I don't see room for hourly service. Where would they find slots through the East River Tunnels in rush hour? Every Amtrak train would displace an existing LI train with a much greater capacity, crowded as it is with commuters originating at NYP. Maybe file this away until all the related Gateway wo...

When South Station was built, wasn't the lower-level loop designed with the idea that the suburban lines would be electrified, and when that didn't happen the ("future-proof") loop tracks were unusable?

Particularly considering that women are generally regarded as being graceful in their appearance, I would agree that "it" is the appropriate pronoun. (Just before we get back on topic, I have a question about containers: Before I retired, when I was involved in container movements, a marin...

I would think UP on the Embarcadero in Oakland, CA; 2 main tracks in pavement, in mixed traffic with cross streets, used by Coast Starlight, Capitol Corridor, San Joaquin, and UP double-stack trains.

Looks like he knows what works.

The Silverliner III's had the engineer's position on the left to enable head-end passenger boarding at stations with right-side platforms during single-car operation, but I don't think they ever did it. In PRR days they ran single MP54's between Media and West Chester, but that was manual block, wit...

When PATCO (Philadelphia) began operation (1968?) their police immediately took action against fare jumpers, with apparently lasting reults: word quickly spread around -- don't try it. In New York, I think during the Koch administration, a crackdown on fare jumpers caught a guy who had no criminal r...

I think the first ones were acquired by SP pre-Caltrain (they were painted in the Overland scheme); probably seemed a good idea at the time, since the Harriman coaches were not air-conditioned (and as I recall the windows couldn't be opened -- not a problem in The City but of course the weather is a...

Excellent shots; thanks for posting. Was there much fuss and bother crossing the frontier?

A number of larger lines used smaller vessels--or even barges -- to serve lower-volume ports with sort of a "last mile" connecting operation for transshipment of transatlantic containers moving via a major nearby port. Sea-Land had such an operation connecting New York with other North Atl...