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    Floridian

    They will scrape up a 5th Silver Star set somehow, and divert it from New York to Chicago.
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    Gateway Project/New York Penn Station capacity improvement

    If they build Penn Station South, there is no issue. Most trains in the new tunnels will use it. On weekends, trains are scheduled to use only one tube - which means 8 slots per hour, allotted 5 to NJT, 3 to Amtrak. They currently run 19TPH rush hours, which would be a 58% reduction in...
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    New Gulf Coast service (New Orleans - Mobile and Baton Rouge)

    OK. Someone from Chicago on Trainorders said they eliminated the 3rd trainset, and enlisted the numbered Hiawathas that get each of the two sets.
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    Gateway Project/New York Penn Station capacity improvement

    They mean 48 in peak direction, with 2 tubes each way. That is a stretch, unless they rebuild the signal system. A slot is basically 3 minutes, so 20 TPH. BUT, there is no place to put those trains other than Penn Station South, and head back to Jersey, like to a new Boonton Yard, equivalent to...
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    New Gulf Coast service (New Orleans - Mobile and Baton Rouge)

    VIA Rail's GE P42's have never seen the world east, north, west of the Corridor, they never will, Winnipeg and Vancouver shops are not GE-friendly, and they are to be retired with the Charger/Venture sets. Several already have. The standard loco outside the corridor until 2035 will be the EMD...
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    Hiawatha discussion

    How is it any Hiawatha has an on board crew, which means cafe attendant, when there is no cafe service, or do you mean train crew ?
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    Keystone Corridor discussion

    Between Harold and Penn Station is non-stop, acceleration is a non-issue, at best a 60MPH railroad, LIRR trains can do 80MPH, and they run at least 6 trains per hour all day to Penn Station.
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    Hiawatha discussion

    I am from back east, but I suspect no cafe on these Hiawatha trips using Borealis equipment because the cafe attendant (OBS) is likely based in Chicago, had just overnighted in St Paul, so would not be hotelled again in Milwaukee, and they are not going to spend money on another one. So there is...
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    Keystone Corridor discussion

    What would be the point of that ?
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    Question about walking to/from Penn Station to Moyinhan Train Hall via LIRR Corridor

    There is nothing that says you must board/get off either Amtrak or LIRR from the Moynihan concourse, though there is no Amtrak checked baggage, tickets, or red caps in legacy Penn.
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    What happens on the train when it is twelve hours late?

    The Capitol Ltd will release 6 sleepers, 6 coaches and 3 37000 diner/lounges. There is always the possibility of cut cars. If they don't have 6 coaches or sleepers to add to the Zephyr sets, they could have 3 to cut/add at Denver. It would be very easy with it backing in for each direction...
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    Salt Lake City Station discussion

    I got off a Superliner in SLC in 2012. While the platform is level, there is one hell of a gap between train and platform where anyone can easily step into, especially half-asleep at 1am. They should either close that gap or toss out threshold plates.
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    What happens on the train when it is twelve hours late?

    At what point do they call up Quiznos (which I had on a Pioneer when the diner was rendered unsuable by a water tank leak), Subway, or KFC ? Subway is not set up well for mass production.
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    New Gulf Coast service (New Orleans - Mobile and Baton Rouge)

    There is no such thing as a Viewliner coach.
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    Empire Builder discussion 2023 Q4 - 2024

    Given the fact this happened literally in God's Country, I don't know what they could have done better, except hold the trains for what they figured at the time would be a unpredictably long delay, though they could have ordered ahead some real food at Cut Bank or East Glacier, assuming more...
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    New train (40-41 Floridian) between Miami and Chicago via Washington DC

    That might encourage some people from NYP-PHL to go via DC than the Pittsburgh sleepless/shuffle.
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    Greyhound sounding Chicago alarm

    Major attitude adjustment for Flixbus/Greyhound, that actually has to behave like a real bus company, not a curbside-Chinatown outfit. They also need to learn stop stranding people at "depots" (filling stations) for days awaiting a driver to show up.
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    Pennsylvanian (the train(s) and route) discussion

    One or the other must have been on a train to Pontiac a few days ago, I think to discuss service over to Windsor ON.
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    East River Tunnels rehabilitation 2024-2027

    Adirondack is 5 cars. NJT trains in NYPS under 6 cars is very rare, if ever.
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    East River Tunnels rehabilitation 2024-2027

    LIRR West Side Yard is not at all what I am referring to, but the yard south of the tunnels and west of Penn Station, (I don't know the name or designation of it) . They do in fact stash NJT trains there.
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