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Again, awaiting further study. Supporters hope it can piggyback on Amtrak's Gateway project. Link That doesn't seem to me like a very realistic plan, to piggyback the 7 extension on Amtrak's Gateway project. Capital funding dollars for the foreseeable future are very scarce. Political people have s...

Run it to Jamacia and establish a LGA & JFK connection. Follow the median of the Grand Central to the Van Wyck to Jamacia. How many people are actually transferring between LGA and JFK? I could see it from a maintenance perspective perhaps, enlarge one shop instead of building a second one, but...

Why did NJT not release a news release like "Christie Administration announces new one-seat ride to New York", like they did with the summer trips to the shore? http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=PressReleaseTo&PRESS_RELEASE_ID=2928" onclick="window.open...

From what I read the funding is costing almost 600K for the year but so far the initial one seat service was only averaging like 40 passengers per train. Its purely political. No one in their right mind would approve that. Yeah I get that the housing value will go up and over time you'll get a few ...

I see they are gradually phasing in one seat service to new York. Would be good if weekend service were included. That's obvious. But I suppose they only have one tunnel under the Hudson on weekends. Another factor I hadn't realized is that this service to NY requires funding. They are only putting...

Even with the US economy in full swing and ridership creeping towards 2008, these past two years have been quite morbid in terms of expansion. I might shed a tear if a dare open that infamous 2020 map. http://webspace.webring.com/people/tt/transit383/njt2020.gif" onclick="window.open(this...

The Downeaster has some coaches in a backwards setup because it runs in push-pull operation (engine on each end and it can't turn consist at terminals). The Keystones change direction so hence you have coaches turned their too. But since the Vermonter is no longer doing a reverse direction at Palme...

With the Vermonter backup changing soon, I was thinking about coaches running backward is not optimal.

Where does Amtrak routinely run coaches backward with passengers inside for any distance at any speed?

So, do we have rush hour numbers? Estimating indicates that the station is not over built. On a weekday ~46K passengers use the station. I think this is a measure of entrances or exits and not both because the numbers add to the total. Is the 160,000 for one direction or both? I will assume the numb...

I was reading on another thread about the difficulty in boring out tunnels for new lines. Is that part of why it takes so much longer to build a new subway line since that 1960's than it used to? Although all of the lines are being bored instead of cut and cover, the station building appears to be ...

Here's the new timetable, eff. 12/29 http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/924/168/NatP55_Flyer_20141229.pdf Thank you Amtrak for including this text in the timetable: "The schedule shown here is the Vermonter’s initial schedule via Greenfield, Northampton and Holyoke. Schedule adjustments will be imple...

The article makes a point that the station is designed for "160,000 PATH riders daily", but serves an average of 46,000.

Does anyone know where these figures come from or the capacity at rush hour?

Because reducing redundancy on a crowded corridor constitutes an "improvement". Many European high speed lines (Eurostar included) do not use wayside signals at all, not even at interlockings, on the high speed routes. I read somewhere that the basic limit for seeing a wayside signal in t...

"Efforts are also underway to restore service to Montreal. Delabruere says both countries are currently working on a treaty that would allow the train to continue to Montreal for customs clearance without making a border stop. He says the treaty is a major hurdle facing Montreal service, but i...

Sunday's New York Times has a "quite interesting" Opinion, repeat Opinion, column suggesting that the New York City Convention Center be relocated to atop Sunnyside Yard. Aside from being likely the world's largest underground rail yard and further a source of otherwise avoidable employee...