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Crozet would clearly be an Infill stop or a natural C'ville commuter rail stop. We know this partly because it is the only place outside of Charlottesville that has a branch of the UVa Credit Union . Off topic: I love Crozet! When my older sister was at UVa, my Dad bought a farm there thinking he'd...

I agree that one flaw in the "east west service" has always been that I-64 is actually a direct, fast right of way for 60~70 mph bus service--speeds hard to achieve & sustain by rail. However, if US-29 is the competition, things get a little more evenly matched (which is why the Lynchb...

Co-op City Station would probably be the closest station to City Island. I hope that the MTA is considering having an entrance to that station from Shore Road, rather than having people only be able to access Co-op City Station from Co-op City itself. It would be nice to possibly have a station on ...

WAS is a station that has the know how and parts and equipment necessary to service the Viewliners (and swap them on and off if need be).

Tidewater stations? No such capabilities.

Columbus-Dayton was part of Amtrak’s National Limited (ended 1979). In the Amtrak era, The missing bits appear to be Dayton-Cinci and Cleveland-Columbus. This is one where the RRs will need capital $ for capacity upgrades if it is going to happen https://news.wosu.org/news/2019-07-04/curious-cbus-wh...

And yet somehow the East Side Access TBMs were staffed (3 shifts with plenty of overtime) with ~24 people when all other deployments of the same model TBM took just ~12 people . Even among tunnels, NYC has a work rules + politicians collusion that we’d hope Amtrak as manager could avoid

AMtrak has released more detailed on their "Connects US" plan for the 3Cs route (now called 3C + D to reassure Dayton that they're on the map) https://i.imgur.com/5qy3Ksi.jpg 250 miles: Cleveland Crestline Delaware COlumbus Springfield Dayton Sharonville Cincinnati And at least the Mayors ...

How much faster would it be to Grand Rapids as a spur off Kalamazoo instead of at the end of the Pere Marquette?

At last, MDOT has a picture that does suggest that, until this upgrade, the state owned stretch must have been 79mph,

Virginia is laying out out $4b that's $500 per inhabitant (8m). The $219m being spent to Chris-Black (I love that) "covers" 438,000 people...pretty close to the population of Virginia southwest of I-81 from Montgomery COunty VA (the Merrimac terminus) (600k, technically, so, yes, get them ...

Let's not get bogged down in gas taxes . Whether paid or unpaid, they are a minor and variable cost easily funded from tickets on a pay as you go basis--and that ends when service ends (if it fails). The Virginia Breeze (operated by Megabus on leased state buses) likely never thinks about gas taxes....

I really wish, though, that MDOT would say how many new miles of 110mph is being added? [EDIT] Upon further reading, I think this is the first time that anything between Kalamazoo and Albion will be more than 79 mph, because they are bragging about the extension the longest stretch of 110mph (the Po...

Trains Magazine says 110mph service is coming Kalamazoo to Albion on May 25, And Albion to Deerborn later this summer. As described it appears to be the fruits of the work on track curves and signals that we discussed upthread. The improvements seem small enough that Michigan for now will not reflec...

This is news I'd missed back in Sept 2020 (for Federal FY ending Sep 30 2021) How would you interpret "70 miles of CWR" on a branch that, from Charlottesville to Clifton Forge is a total of about 90 miles. $13.5m seems to cheap to be 70/90ths of the corridor. Frankly 35 miles (if 70 miles ...

The beauty part is: once the line in operating, infills can follow on an as-needed/as-wanted basis.