aah. Twinned with Atlantis. Thank you
To be fair, I think the station in Deland still has the Sunset Limited on the letterboard...The Biloxi station still showed it on their schedule board into 1972 View attachment 31984
Hey, it's only " Suspended", so there's hope yet for its return, Right?To be fair, I think the station in Deland still has the Sunset Limited on the letterboard...
Danville TN won’t be found on most maps – not contemporary maps anyway, as one easily could find the Danvilles of IL and VA.Magnificent stuff! As an outsider, may I ask where Danville TN is? Google maps can't seem to find it
Excellent!!! Well done!aah. Twinned with Atlantis. Thank you
A similar thing happened in Massachusetts when the Quabbin Reservoir was built to supply water to the Boston Metro area. The flooding of the Swift river valley caused the loss of the towns of Enfield. Prescott, Greenwich, and Dana, which you will not find on your Google map.Danville TN won’t be found on most maps – not contemporary maps anyway, as one easily could find the Danvilles of IL and VA.
As Siegmund stated, Danville is a ghost town. The land on which the former community of Danville TN was impounded when the region was inundated by the Tennessee River, the TVA’s (Tenn. Valley Authority) construction of Kentucky Dam in 1944 to create the Kentucky Lake reservoir.
On the other hand, the community of New Johnsonville, TN, located upstream along the CSX Bruceton Sub (former L&N, ex-NC&StL), is the result of a new town established when the former town of Johnsonville TN also became inundated for the new lake. Still, Danville TN remained an official station point on the Memphis Line until the late 1970s.
So, Danville is the PoDunkest of podunks and the name remains primarily as an association among locals.
"Mobile is the only city along the route to New Orleans without infrastructure built to accommodate an Amtrak train. Other cities that are stops along the Gulf Coast route – Pascagoula, Biloxi, Gulfport, and Bay St. Louis – have train stops or depots ready to go in preparation for Amtrak’s restart."Some more news about Gulf Coast Service...
https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/mobiles-train-stop-key-element-for-amtraks-return-to-gulf-coast.html
For the longest time they were arguing about whether the station should be downtown or near the airport. I lost track of whatever came of it or not.Hard to believe this wasn’t a priority from day1. I wonder if there is a building along the track in Mobile that could be repurposed as a station with an added platform. NC has done this successfully and if I recall correctly so did Denver when DUT was being renovated.
Well, initially the Tukwila. WA stop had temporary wooden platforms, so I am sure something could be slapped together in 6 months. What is probably the bigger holdup and the critical path is getting all agencies involved, Amtrak, CSX, the City of Mobile, etc, to agree on something and getting it permitted. There will have be some agency or organization pushing them all to resolution, otherwise they'll all consider it someone else's problem.I suppose it is within the realm of possibilities to slap together an Amslab with a Bus Shelter type thing on the Amslab in 6 months pending something more elaborate. That should be sufficient to start service, though embarrassing for Mobile. But every indication is that they thrive on such down there
It is ostensibly the Southern Rail Commission which is supposed to be doing the pushing AFAICT.Well, initially the Tulwila stop had temporary wooden platforms, so I am sure something could be slapped together in 6 months. What is probably the bigger holdup and the critical path is getting all agencies involved, Amtrak, CSX, the City of Mobile, etc, to agree on something and getting it permitted. There will have be some agency or organization pushing them all to resolution, otherwise they'll all consider it someone else's problem.
Remember that Mobile was against resuming passenger service. Unlike the Mississippi Coast, they are a destination for a lot of CSX freight. They are in lockstep with CSX.Hard to believe this wasn’t a priority from day1. I wonder if there is a building along the track in Mobile that could be repurposed as a station with an added platform. NC has done this successfully and if I recall correctly so did Denver when DUT was being renovated.
You're correct regarding the temporary station at DUS. There was a lot of background noise, but it had a happy ending. The temporary station's disadvantage was the need to cross arterial Wewatta Street to get to or from the trains, which were on Track 8. The building was formerly a lighting outlet store.Hard to believe this wasn’t a priority from day1. I wonder if there is a building along the track in Mobile that could be repurposed as a station with an added platform. NC has done this successfully and if I recall correctly so did Denver when DUT was being renovated.
That seems fine! Get a portable wheelchair lift for ADA. The slab needs to not cause any problems constructing the permanent high platform. Short trains might solve that problem ?I suppose it is within the realm of possibilities to slap together an Amslab with a Bus Shelter type thing on the Amslab in 6 months pending something more elaborate. That should be sufficient to start service, though embarrassing for Mobile. But every indication is that they thrive on such down there
That “temporary station” in Denver was pretty nice…some places would be thrilled to have had one similar…You're correct regarding the temporary station at DUS. There was a lot of background noise, but it had a happy ending. The temporary station's disadvantage was the need to cross arterial Wewatta Street to get to or from the trains, which were on Track 8. The building was formerly a lighting outlet store.
The main danger with temporary stations is the St. Louis model, where the temporary is around for a long time. In Denver, some faction among the developers thought that Amtrak should remain in the temp site.
Probably denying that it would ever start.Wow- I was so excited for this train to run then Mobile needs a terminal. Why were they not getting it ready while they were doing test runs, where were they stopping when they were doing the test runs.
The usual internecine wrangling among various stake holders. Nothing unusual here or almost anywhere else, but with rail in the US these things seem to drag on longer.Wow- I was so excited for this train to run then Mobile needs a terminal. Why were they not getting it ready while they were doing test runs, where were they stopping when they were doing the test runs.
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