Recent content by AmtrakMaineiac

I wonder what happens to that vibrant inviting neighborhood when you plop a ballpark along with the acres of parking required nowadays into it.

Which means a good probability phase 2 never happens and freights continue to use the old tunnel

Thanks for researching and posting these numbers. I notice you have Wolverine in there twice, at 96% and at 88%.

Sounds like a fun trip. The Durango and Silverton is well worth the detour. How are you getting to Durango? If you rent a car, there is an Enterprise office 4 blocks from the station. The drive gets very scenic as you get closer to Durango. The mountain passes north of Silverton are not for the...

Probably motor generator sets. When I was in the Air Force Communications Service in the early 1970s we were still using a lot of ground to air radios from the Korean War era such as the GRC-27 that were vacuum tube and use MG sets usually Dynamotors with the motor and generator combined into...

Looking at the data on Juckins.net for arrivals of train 280 on Sunday for the last 4 months the average delay is 6 minutes. The worst for the last 4 months is 52 minutes. That and one of 27 min were the only significant delays.

One of only two that are currently flyable left. This would be cool to see. I will be in the Lehigh Valley that weekend but Unfortunately tied up with my move. B-29 Doc, a Superfortress bomber from WWII, set to land in the Lehigh Valley If I had $1200 burning a hole in my pocket I might...

Nice article with a good overview of current and future Brightline service.

I seem to recall that some of the later broadcasts of this episode on PBS had some sort of disclaimer to the effect of "Amtrak is much better now than what is shown on this video".

My son and daughter in law got caught up in this driving back to RI from PA, taking some back roads and trying to make a U turn got stuck in a ditch. Fortunately some passing Good Samaritans helped push them out. The Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways are already congested even without this...

It may be that people can see the advantages of a highway in something they can use so are willing to allow that but perhaps less likely to see the advantages of HSR since there are essentially no examples of one in this country yet.

Last night I was watching a YouTube of the BBC "Great Railway Journeys of the World" episode "Coast to Coast". In it the presenter travels on what was then the Westbound San Francisco Zephyr, before it was rerouted onto the D&RGW. At the Denver stop they were washing the windows with some kind...

Arrgh I hate these incessant surveys! Just got one the other day from Home Depot because I bought a putty knife, please rate your new putty knife. What can you say about a putty knife? And I haven't even used it yet. I might consider an Amtrak survey though for a couple of reasons (1) hopefully...

I suppose burning fossil fuels in a power plant is more efficient than in the prime mover of a locomotive. But it is mostly the trendy way to present it as @Caesar La Rock noted above. To me the other advantages of electrification matter more - better acceleration, no Diesel fumes.

For some reason the ABC article has a link to a train crash in India, when you follow that link you find that the crash happened in 2023 :confused: