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The April Monthly Performance Report has been out for a little while. Again these are monthly, not YTD figures. The following routes are between 95%-100% of April 2019 ridership (NB: this month begins comparison with 2019 figures to better follow the twelve months pre-COVID). Three routes are...

That would leave, if the restorations from Beech Grove materialize, I think, leave ample room to equip the Downeaster. I think there are somewhere around 79 extant Horizon coaches.

Perhaps a little context from someone who rides the 15 might be helpful. SEPTA is a broke blue collar transit system. The 15 is a blue collar worker’s route, one of the busiest in the system. It’s far from the most dangerous, especially east of Girard College. We can’t afford to play games. If...

I hope they do. Last time they changed their minds the day before. They look so cool floating around.

I’d be curious if anyone here might be able to verify that the second platform is indeed being restored. I read the fact sheet and it didn’t seem super clear.

Videos are available of ALC’s leading the Cap and Silver trains. I could not find one for the LSL. I believe it’s a matter of physical territory and not ownership. The AT is probably it’s own category as a mixed train.

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/amtrak-train-service-is-unavailable-this-summer-in-the-adirondacks Local Media confirmation of suspension until 9/9. Lord knows what they’re doing to triple the length of the project.

Philadelphia is, by some statistics, the poorest large city in the nation. It is also neck and neck with Chicago, by some countings,for the second densest city in the nation. SEPTA is doing the opposite, respecting the rules above, which I think is the right move. Keep the busses where they can...

I can’t speak to other places, but that is not the case in Philadelphia. The new system is service hour neutral both overall and per each contributing county.

There is an ongoing Trolley Modernization project, but it focuses on improving service on the extant routes (10, 11, 13, 15, 34, 36) by looking at stop consolidation, level boarding, articulated train sets, etc. Regardless of what people say, there is NO low hanging fruit for trolley...

Septa has recently approved a new bus map, as part of its BusRevolution. (I hate the stupid names. You’re redrawing bus lines. It’s not a revolution.) This is the first systematic redesign of the SEPTA bus system since its creation in 1964, sixty years ago. It has been drafted several times and...

Something odd is going on. 448[29] is showing “sold out” at least ALB-BOS. That is inconclusive but unusual. Usually space is available, even last minute. Sleeper space is available later in the week. My bet is an equipment failure and subsequent fallout.

Somewhere on this forum there is a pdf of the FRA filing. I read it but I forget which thread.

They tried on the Chief. That seems to be about the limit. I love that you clean the windows. Sad though it is, if enough of those crews start complaining that the customers clean the windows, we may get somewhere. On a recent trip a passenger took his finger and wrote in the filth on the cafe...

I don’t know if @TRA_Thom would be able to confirm this, or @Steve's Wanderlust might be able to watch for it, but Thom’s video suggested 1333 put a hundred off at MKE and boarded 50 new. That phenomenon might suggest that maybe the presumption we all (or at least I don’t remember reading an...

The third leg of this trip was aboard Train 50, the Cardinal. Departure was scheduled for 5:55. About an hour prior a message was sent out suggesting a delay on origination of up to 90 minutes due to late turn of equipment. The lounge staff indicated it was indeed mechanical failure in the yard...

Early reports suggest high winds caused a 40 car train to derail in Stuttgart, AR, disrupting the Texas Eagle. Amtrak suggested a possible HAZMAT. That does not seem to be confirmed. We’ll see what happens today. Local media report...

The next leg was the City of New Orleans. This was the uneventful run of the trip. I was rather annoyed that the third coach was closed, the train was busy but not jammed, so I guess it’s a question of perspective. One coach handled Chicago and Memphis. The other coach handled everywhere else...

This year’s loop trip was a short one May 20-25, 2024. Departure was Monday aboard Train 19, the Crescent. I thought for a second I wasn’t going to make it. There were problems on the NEC that seemed to have closed the eastbound inside track. As a result several Amtrak trains passed me on the...

Clearly the sort of people who just pop an address into the GPS and blindly hope it gets them there.