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I thought that the baggage/dorm was a fantastic idea. Initially thought that maybe Amtrak was preparing for a contract with the USPS since the idea to ship mail by train was being tossed around back then, but now I can't understand why Amtrak changed them to full baggage cars.

I can't find the renderings that I remember from the plan but as far as I remember the tracks were going to pretty much slice through Old Lyme on a viaduct. Here are a couple of excerpts from related articles: OLD LYME, CT – U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. and a pair of lawmakers...

Although there was enormous and understandable objection to bringing the line through Old Lyme (maybe even on an obtrusive viaduct?), they never tried any other options like splitting the bypass in half and compromising by eliminating the western half and proposing only building the eastern...

I think it's worthwhile to note that a Viewliner I has an ADA room with an enclosed toilet/shower and the new Viewliner IIs have the toilet exposed in the middle of the room. To have the ability to sell the ADA room as a nice roomy additional double bedroom to non-ADA passengers would seem to...

There is a lot of information here but one thing that jumped out at me was this statement: "The Task Force recommended that standards for Class 9 track be removed from this subpart and that the maximum allowable speed for Class 8 track be lowered from 160 m.p.h. to 150 m.p.h." Would this affect...

Have you asked any women about that? Ask them about "hovering".

Not sure if this will work but here is an interesting letter concerning ADA issues:

I am going to make a guess here so please allow me to take a stab at this. Taking a NYP comparable bilevel car like those mentioned above and putting in Delta One Mini-Suites (which are really just Off-The-Shelf modules made by Thompson Aero | Intelligent Design) I will make the following...

I did mention earlier that my wife took the Meteor from Florida to Boston last month. She had a choice of coach for about $300 or a roomette for $1400! She traveled coach. I think there is definitely a market for something in between.

Of course NO sleeper, Viewliner or Superliner, allows complete ADA access through the entire car. So one ADA room at the vestibule end, which would allow access to the adjourning dining car, is exactly what we have here and also in existing sleepers. I have read so many conflicting reports of...

So do the same exercise with the Bombardier cars! Same thing. Two levels and they fit in NYP. NJT needs to get to platforms that Amtrak doesn't have to. Amtrak just runs though on straight tracks for the most part. But the point is there is potentially a double-deck car design that can...

This is the car to do some back-of-the-envelop figuring on. Two levels and fits in NYP:

Study the Delta One Suites a bit and you will see that no passengers are trapped. All have aisle access.

We already did this exercise somewhere. The 350 cabin is 18' 5" wide and has eight across Delta One Suites: A350-1000 - Airbus Aircraft https://aircraft.airbus.com › a350-clean-sheet-clean-start Dimensions ; Overall length, 73.79 m ; Cabin length, 58.03 m ; Fuselage width, 5.96 m ; Max cabin...

Delta fought hard with the FAA to have doors on their unique Delta One Mini-Suites. Doors were not allowed up to this point. Amtrak could easily extend the walls and doors up to the ceiling and provide plenty of privacy in their version.

I would really like Amtrak to at least try this Delta One mini-suite idea between Boston and D.C. Just a couple of cars needed to offer sleeper service as the old Night Owl. With the high price of overnight accommodations in Boston, New York and Washington, there has to be a market for this...

I like the Delta One better for rail travel. We all like to look out of the window once in a while and the doors add additional privacy. Update: I found that Mint has doors also. They do appear to take up more floor space though.

Relatively short gap between Nashville and Atlanta should be closed I would think. Both corridor and Chicago-Florida service would seem a logical market if the schedules work.

Seems like it's a simple matter of switching out one car, the one with the unnecessary electrical equipment. That equipment will be riding around unused for years. Converting a D1 to a B1 would be an easy job I would think. You know after 20 years of nonuse that electrical equipment will be...

So assign it a Type D. It doesn't actually run on the NEC.