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The High Speed Rail Alliance published another A-grade video, this one covering CAHSR, called The Need for a National Railway Program. Despite the title, the heart of it is about CAHSR, from the vantage of the Transit Costs Project at NYU. The interview is with Eric Goldwyn, who points out two...

My guess is the first level bedrooms had a low ceiling. So it would be awkward to have passageways under the stairs to lengthwise rooms. The first level hallway had a normal ceiling height, which is why the lengthwise beds upstairs were on a raised platform. Also, only one small bathroom downstairs!

Shanghai has the maglev from the airport. World's only high speed maglev. It's fast, but not the fastest train you can take. For some reason a few years ago they bumped the speed down from 268 mph to 186 mph, maybe to reduce maintenance? It runs 19 miles. Japan has a maglev that's even shorter...

I should have mentioned that MNR document I posted was from 2015! When I visited CRT, I remarked on the lengthy platforms to someone working there. She said, "we get long trains!" I was used to the New Haven line. We were there to see the Chagall and Matisse windows at the Union Church of...

My mistake. My memory must have been erased by the trauma of not finding that Washington Post the one time I went into the station during the switch. Thanks! Washington Union and the peaceful park between it and the Senate building are well worth taking a longer layover than just glancing in...

Platform lengths, wish there was a nationwide list. Cobbled together this: ALB: 7 cars ( Trainweb, unsourced Wikipedia. Seems reasonable from map.) HUD: 2 cars (map) RHI: 6 cars, will be lengthened and made high (Chuck Schumer, ESPA) POU: 6 cars (MNR) CRT: 10 cars (MNR) YNY: 10 cars (MNR) MNR...

Like the combative tone: 'Not study money': Scranton-NYC Amtrak project gets $9 million for construction work "From the Electric City to the Big Apple," from an earlier story: On track: Scranton may finally see return of passenger rail line to NYC through Poconos

FAQ, should you go into the station during the engine change on the lower level platforms at Washington Union? Cons: The food places and drug store are far away. There is no newsstand. The coffee shop on the main level has lines. The bathrooms the main level are small. The conductors say not...

The basement had most of the mall, such as the movie theater. The big drug store is still on that level, as are the intriguing old portal gates behind the fast food counters. Apparently there's a service corridor running transverse back there, but the portals once provided access from below to...

Are you sure about that? The P42's are often a problem southbound out of WAS, and sometimes LOR for the Autotrain. Northbound, it's track conditions, usually signals. Are the ALC-42's still having winter issues? How about in Canada?

Maybe the NJT signage is there somewhere. Or you just have to know! NJT has some caveats about this service: So that makes 3/3 NYC area major airports with imperfect transit connections! I am glad NJT mentions all that. It also mentions what may be the most common way you'd end up paying the...

I don't know about this area, but I've seen other projects agree to daytime work only so neighbors are not bothered.

Cannonball's a good name for the Norfolk NER: straight alignment, express to Petersburg, and there's a cannonball in the wall of St. Paul's Church in Norfolk. Lord Dunmore shot it from a British ship on the first day of 1776. But as Miles in Transit says, "bring back flag stops!"

Amtrak and NJT fares to EWR Station include the $8.50 AirTrain fee. The NJT fare from NYP to EWR is now $16.80. The Amtrak fare is as low as $5 outbound to EWR, and $10 inbound to NYP, which is an odd way to not make back the $8.50 x 2. By highway, the tunnels and bridges are only tolled inbound...

My mistake, the restored service in the FRA LD Study is the North Coast Hiawatha, Seattle - Chicago, not a section of the Empire Builder! Too late to edit it. State supported sub-750-mile routes have been a short term success in ridership. Eighteen states contribute, comprising 57% of the U.S...

Detroit is cut off from the east unless you take the Thruway bus from Toledo. The FRA LD Study, has one solution, as of Meeting 4: New Orleans - Nashville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Toledo - Detroit. Amtrak Corridor ID has a state-supported train: Cleveland - Toledo - Detroit. Ohio took the...

Guess it makes a profit on the cars & trucks. Capital expenses are amortized over years. You're looking for cash flow maybe. I am not an accountant.

Those two routes did not even survive Meeting 2 in July 2023. (The two routes being Nashville-Memphis and Tampa-Naples.) Here is Meeting 4, June 2024: https://fralongdistancerailstudy.org/meeting-materials/ The first meeting was the vision stuff, drawing lines on maps. Annoying as it was...

The report says they don't want any of the four options. They are trying to prove the only way to get another 24tph and maintain commuter capacity is to expand the footprint. Recently that has meant the block south of Madison Square Garden. Does NJT still have the most crowded trains? A naive...

https://pennstationcomplex.info/penn-capacity-expansion/ Penn Station needs a larger footprint if is going to double its capacity. That has been the headline from the report this week by the official Station Advisory Group. The 19-page Exec Summary sums it up well enough, since there's not much...