Link below to an article on train washing facilities from Trains in July. It mentions that facilities are completed or under construction at Boston, New Orleans, Hialeah, Sanford etc. Can anyone update this with current status...
For those of us old enough to remember, Southern Pacific's "Automatic Buffet Cars" didn't die, they just went to sleep for over fifty years. This is a terrible idea. Put the manned "Snack Bars" on the new trains and give the passengers a break.
Those Indianapolis-Louisville tracks today are too slow to accommodate passenger trains. It is operated by the
Louisville and Indiana. I thought that after Kankakee, the "South Wind" and the "James Whitcomb Riley" came
down the former "Big Four" tracks from Lafayette to Indianapolis via...
While no expert, I took the "South Wind" many times between Indianapolis and West Palm Beach. As I recall, the
only" slow" stretch was just south of Louisville and I remember cars and trucks passing the train on what was then the "Kentucky Turnpike" now I-65
That has been the case for over a century. Back on the 1950's the property taxes on the Albany NYC station, not the newer one on the east bank of the Hudson, was almost exactly the same as the support for the Albany airport.
I look back at history, and the route was at least double tracked. The railroads are getting bitten by decisions to take up second track decades ago. Now it has to go back in.