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ConnectUS countdown clock reduces federal subsidies 20% a year until it is gone. That's why 95% of it is going nowhere. In 2009, 3 Red State governors threw Obama's HSR money right back at him. New York, Vermont, and Maine benefiited. Nothing has changed.

The Port has always been against it and likely owns the District 5 Councilman. Multi-state 403b trains all failed rather quickly, been the case since 1972, the state in the middle often being the culprit if allowed to be, though New Hampshire pays nothing for Downeaster service even though...

The only way to get a daily Cardinal, other than come up with likely $10 million more in operating subsidies, is to truncate it in Washington. They cannot relay and service it in Sunnyside overnight in less than 9 hours. They refuse to come up with so much as a 3rd coach and a diner now, so...

It is not a question of a net add. With the Borealis replacing a Hiawatha, capacity between Chicago and Milwukee has been cut 3% because the Hiawatha sets have 5 coaches and the Borealis has 4. So there are 34 coach lines per day, not 35. Pre-Covid, the Hiawathas had 6 coaches now down to 5, a...

5 cars: Bag/Dorm/Sleeper Sleeper Am-2 Dinette Am-2-Coach Am-2-Coach. If they spread their stuff, they have to unspread it or buy another ticket on the spot.

Because it violates ADA law. Quite an exaggeration. Superliner coaches have 74 seats. Amfleet-2 have 60. 4 single levels will still have 18 more seats than 3 bi-levels. That's one more coach per consist and perhaps 3 sleepers instead of 2. With 2 food service and a baggage car, train grows...

So much for better reliability than the Empire Builder.

The vents run down the middle of the car. You can't have a flat roof that high. The LIRR C-3 cars are not cleared for the Hudson River tunnels. For one thing, the ends of the roof would hit the portal if coming off a diverging switch, and possibly other issues of things hanging from the...

It is not cutting and adding cars. VIA Rail runs combined "J" trains and splits/merges them every day at Brockville and Hervey, and does that in 10 minutes. No need to waste train miles and crew time. The last couple of days, they are running 25 - 45 minutes late. Focus on why that is, not...

I think the future LD fleet should be all single level for interchangeability, avoid internal elevators, and have more high level platforms where they can be isolated from freight trains, like at Denver or St Paul, and mobility-impaired people won't encounter those vestibule steps, but Amtrak is...

That photo does not belong in that group. Caption is totally wrong. It is an NJT MLV car. I know quite well both types of cars. Interiors also differ. The obvious thing wrong in the photo is the paired windows on the LIRR C-3 coach, but the incorrect interior photo shows a partition-less wide...

That is not the plan.

Empire Builder changes crews in Winona and St Cloud, as opposed to Milwaukee and St Paul. I suppose that will remain the same ?

That is not a LIRR C-3 coach, but an NJT MLV car. The upper level over seat luggage racks are too small to be useful. The lower level has none. There are steps to each level, so no ADA access to the food service cars. The cars have traditional gangways at each end. They are basically "step...

Which BNSF rail line is that, I assume not the one 5&6 use ?

And not one word about it under https://www.amtrak.com/alert.html The term "FreeMason" comes to mind, though using public funds from somewhere. Schumer/Gillibrand and Stefanik do not sing out of the same hymnal, yet both claim credit. Governor Hochul and the NYS-DOT Commissioner Marie...

Someone posted on Trainorders how they will cycle equipment. There will be a 3rd set of Hiawatha equipment: Set 1 - Borealis as the "old 333" Set 2 - Borealis as the "old 340" Set 3 - Hiawatha set as 329/332 - sit all day until 341 Set 4 - Hiawatha set as 330/331/334/335/338/339/342 (normal)...

Isn't 60 minutes the cut off for the reservation system ? Do remember the CUS Gate Dragons will slam the door on your nose 5 mnutes before departure time like they're running a Japanese clockwork operation, so now the connection to the CoNO is really 46 minutes.

I hope they do that. I would just couple the Borealis and the Hiawatha together south of Milwaukee, leave the current Hiawtha equipment cycles alone, like VIA Rail does at Brockville in 10 minutes. Load each half from the north and south concourses at CUS. Borealis is receive only northbound /...

There is a big problem there and it is replicated across NYS state every single day. A booked Borealis may run at best half full north of Milwaukee, which is true on Niagara Falls trains and the Pittsfield train north of Abany. There may be just 80 people on the train to Pittsfield with 300...