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Probably only stations that have overhead canopy's? Such as MCO.

INO the unacceptable high number of non passenger worthy cars is a direct result of skimping on spare parts. Any maintenance officer who is subject to a bonus review will want to decrease his parts budget by skimping or ordering spare parts. If he is not penalized for having too many cars out...

If total employment costs for a SCA in a diner are about $30 / hour it would seem that 48 additional coach passengers eating in the diner in a 24 hour period would pay for the food and SCA. That is not counting the additional revenue those riders might supply for being able to eat in the diner...

Every hurricane has different characteristics. This one does not seem to have any sub tropical jet stream affecting it. That jet can often limit the height of the hurricane. when that is the case modern passenger jets can often pass over the top oof a hurricane if not too loaded or make a...

It makes no sense to build another station but use Dallas Union Terminal (station). As for platforms add 2 aerial platforms with 4 tracks. DAL US is very large and basically unused. As understood the 2nd floor was originally the waiting room for the station. Then why not build a walkway...

Do not know for sure but if Amtrak is going to leave the 3 train sets in NOL seems foolish. Yesterday's train 2, today's 59, & last night's 20 sets all have no scheduled trains outbound today. If the yard should flood that is next to the super dome there could be serious damage. Well just...

Now how many fools will go on toward NOL and intermediate stations into a Cat 1 or 2 hurricane??

Suspect that air fares will be sky high due to persons fleeing the hurricane.

There are some locations mainly in coal country that still use 25 hZ. That is slowly being reduced.

Warning Grand Canyon hotels closed due to water main break. Some article said at leat week to repair as pipe is ancient and should have been replaced...

Oh, heavier than 4014???. Maybe you meant east of the Mississippi??

The Portland section loco will provide HEP Spokane & east if the Seattle loco cannot.

A plan that is 12 years old unfortunately did not know how much some items would change. Cars taller than Superliners, 25 kV overhead CAT , dual voltages or more, HSR, Amtrak regionals, schedule reductions by speeding up tracks, ADA + ADA lifts, platform heights, lowering tracks, level...

Total equipment number to go up? Absolutely. It will take some kind of mandate that Amtrak not retire or sell any operatable equipment but just place more into the equipment pools. As well, keep all the present equipment into passenger worthy condition. Amtrak now appears to try to buy...

Did it loose HEP until getting to Spokane?

Grew up ion the Bristol area. As much as I would like to see SW Virginia get better service unfortunately you are correct. SW VA has been veery isolated from Richmond so it has been neglected due to the geography of the terrain. The glaciers cut in the wrong direction. Probably the area...

This method is a repeat of the work when the 3 spans of the RR bridge was replaced over the Mississippi river at St. Louis. The engineering videos of the three spans being replaced at St louis were very informative. Hoping there will be a similar video for Portal North. Having to maneuver the...

A few years ago CSX had that route closed for track work as well. Cannot remember the time but believe it was different than the NS work window. Of course the best would be both routes run for Amtrak. Maybe one route at night best for a 2nd train.

*Most of my trips in and out of US were on single level trains so did not pay a lot of attention to the heights. Now we know that Superliners come very close to the ceiling which brings up questions not only of rail car heights but also the future HSR CAT that will be installed. We also know...

As posted before Rocky Mountaineer cars could operate on Coast Starlight, Sunset, and importantly Auto Train. As well a future DFW - ATL train if it did not go to WAS.