Reviving this thread because there's news! Middletown, PA's new station is open.
https://cumberlink.com/news/local/c...cle_557d4245-20ca-50f3-b608-9c28e74840c9.html
Also worth noting that the new/old Fort Madison station opened.
https://www.greatamericanstations.com/amtrak-moves-to-downtown-fort-madison-iowa/
None of the stations on the "list of shame" have made progress, however.
As a matter of interest, I went through Amtrak's webpages (using a program I wrote) and found all the stations listed as "No accessible platform". It is slightly different from the list I accumulated previously, and probably not entirely accurate:
ARD (Ardmore, PA)
COT (Coatesville, PA)
DEM (Deming, NM)
DOW (Downingtown, PA)
HFY (Harpers Ferry, WV)
KTR (Kingstree, SC) -- this was not on my radar -- what's wrong with Kingstree SC?
LAB (Latrobe, PA)
LEX (Lexington, NC) -- this was not on my radar -- what's wrong with Lexington NC?
MCB (McComb, MS) -- this is temporary and due to post-fire construction
NRK (Newark, DE)
PAR (Parkesburg, PA)
PGH (Pittsburgh, PA) -- ?!?!? Really ?!?!?
PHN (North Philadelphia, PA)
THN (Thurmond, WV)
WLY (Westerly, RI)
Pittsburgh!?!?
Those on my previous list which are not on this list are Lordsburg, NM and Ashland, VA, plus a couple which claimed to lack wheelchair lifts.
I assume Ashland was finished and they just got around to updating the website. Hooray!
I am not sure exactly how Lordsburg, NM, with no platform, is supposed to have an accessible platform, and I think its website information is probably wrong. I will try to contact someone to get that corrected.
In addition to this list, an *astonishing* number of low-platform stations claim to have no wheelchair lift (which would make them inaccessible). Texarkana?!? Dallas?!? Oakland?!? Memphis?!? This can't possibly be right, or at least I hope it's not right, so I'm not going to list them here. I think this is most likely to be a major website error and I will probably try to report it once I figure out who to contact.
Amtrak has still not published the accessibility report they were supposed to publish several months ago.