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This project has been dead for more than a decade after NS said they were completely unwilling to host passenger rail on these tracks (the mostly dormant route was viewed by NS as helpful negotiation leverage for the NCRR lease). Miraculously, NS has had a change of heart (even before their activist...

There are currently -rumors- (nothing more as yet) of a Columbia--Charlotte intercity passenger route being discussed by regional transportation planners. The people involved in the discussions are saying very little about this in order to ‘protect the discussion’ but they indicate that the talks ha...

Perhaps this will enable some express trains? So this leads us to a question I have had for a while. How much track capacity does Brightline have on the FEC? Seems like Grupo México will need to run at least a couple of intermodals a day from Miami. But Brightline is talking about higher frequencie...

Brightline trims near term ridership projections again but still expects to reach its 8 million pa full service goal per bond offering docs. Although this brief article reports that Brightline is hitting capacity limits on some long-distance city pairs and implies that they are now throttling short...

Brightline trims near term ridership projections again but still expects to reach its 8 million pa full service goal per bond offering docs. As a recent rider I’ll offer that the MCO terminus is awfully isolated, and a Stuart station will certainly improve ridership. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/ne...

Just finished a MCO-Miami joyride. The good: Station quality was great. Felt like a swankier DB. Siemens equipment was fully functional and showing no signs of wear (in Premier class) Ride quality was excellent on the new tracks and very good on the old FEC Ridership seemed, fine. The Monday, mid-da...

More ridership numbers, these are not great The Florida high-speed rail system last month disclosed in bond documents that it anticipates carrying a combined 5.5 million passengers this year on its new long-distance service between Miami and the Orlando airport and on its five-year-old South Florida...

This route is ridiculous, but I would take 2-3 round trips per year from end to end if it actually existed. Surely I alone am enough for Amtrak to get moving on this…

JohnFromJersey wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:06 pm Do you have a link to this rail map? I would like to see it for myself.

Based on this mysterious internet post (I have not evaluated its accuracy, these are the first Brightline Orlando ridership numbers I have seen), Brightline carried more passengers from MCO to South Florida than all airlines to all S Florida airports combined (MIA, FLL, PBI) in October. Nearly 80,00...

I think that's a critical element. In Europe the population is more densely concentrated, with a clear distinction between "city" and "country," and there are "last-mile" transit networks, with frequent service, that take you to within walking distance of your front do...

You missed "different" in my quote above. The NEC is one long rail line. the extension south is one long rail line. All the cities have an inline configuration. Where is the existing parallel line going to different terminating cities? Please don't suggest the inland corridor because it a...

You will be hard pressed to find that many large cities packed so close together on different rail lines in the USA. Additionally, in Austria and Germany, the federal governments own the rail corridors. The entire NEC is either federally owned or state owned including the Inland Route and Harrisbur...

That was not just one train with an overnight train between two terminating cities, it was an overnight train between four terminating cities. In Austria, two trains from Innsbruck and Vienna joined into one, in Germany that one train split and went to Cologne and Hamburg. And that's not counting t...

There are now three generations that have grown up on air travel and are used to arriving within 2 to 6 hours of when they left home.... that's the nut you need to crack first. Get there quick. Rail is the opposite of that, and always will be simply because of speed and distance. This nut has been ...