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A fresh scan of the printed Amtrak publication would solve the fuzziness problem. Or ask the Museum if you can use theirs. It's 1790 pixels in height. Thanks for all this work!

The new, relocated Newport News station is set to open in April or May of this year. It's quite spiffy, as seen from I-64, and from the other side like this drawing. It will serve as a transportation center, with the regional bus system, including a route to the nearby airport. A new wye lies...

Sorry, I just meant there are no additional trains in Virginia.

I guess you mean The Museum of Railroad Timetables not the RPA? The museum ends with January 2016. I don't know how far you are going back with buses, since at some point it's interleaved with changing train service. For what it's worth, Suffolk VA was a Thruway stop in the 1970s, then it was...

NER is not adding trips, so it must be NEC only.

There an interesting Q&A with (apparently) an Amtrak mechanic on the NEC, on reddit - amtrak. The Amfleets do need regular repairs and maintenance by experienced people. They are checked every night.

The sleepers very briefly came back during Covid. As usual they were fully booked well in advance. The time I took it, in coach, it arrived nearly full from Boston. The waiting area was mellow enough, no drama. Another time I arrived at NYP at 2am due to signal problems in Maryland and the crew...

The writing on it says Aeroflot. According to Wiki Commons the photo was taken in Hungary, on the way to the 1959 Paris Air Show: The landing of the Tu-114 long-range passenger plane on its way to the Le Bourget air show in Budapest on June 5, 1959. Fortepan 84680.jpg Then someone didn't read...

One common thing about UP and Brightline is capital is limited, and goes towards profit. Assuming the directors aren't suffering under misconceptions. And short-term thinking, like what will it do to the stock price. Sometimes that is overstated, since a corporation can have a mission. I've...

Amazingly, the hyperloop has reappeared, this time between Rochester MN (Mayo Clinic) and the Twin Cities. I don't know how Mass Transit Magazine publishes all those copyrighted stories, so here is the original...

Completion in 2035 seems a long way away. I looked up a tunnel project nearer me in Virginia, under Hampton Roads, the body of water where the James and Elizabeth Rivers approach the Chesapeake Bay. It's underway and will be about five years from the first shovel to the finish. But it's for a...

I was wrong about Hyundai Rotem as far as all of the U.S. is concerned: Hyundai Rotem wins subway car order for LA Metro

Wonder where they will be built. Some documents I found from Metro Board of Directors said they toured Rotem plants in both South Korea and the U.S. (Attachment A). News reports and Google Maps say the Philadelphia plant closed in 2018. The US offices are still in suburban Philly. The documents...

The Amtrak booking page now separates stations from destinations when you start typing. It used to be a mess, often fooling you into thinking there was no train if you picked a destination instead of a station. Or that's how I recall it. On the phone app, it only shows stations. Hey niemi24s...

I was on a southbound Amtrak during afternoon rush departing WAS recently. It was delayed maybe 20 minutes arriving at WAS. The announcement onboard was that we would be behind a VRE all the way to Fred. (Favorite nickname for a city!) The stats on such delays would be driven by the fact that...

The Duluth Thruway bus ended in 2022 according to someone on the Wikipedia page for the St. Paul station. I can't find any other information about it. Non-Amtrak bus service between Duluth and the Twin Cities runs several times a day I think. A while back I started a collection of state rail...

Nice work. If you just want to verify the bus stations, see the map and downloadable table here: Amtrak Stations It is a station map, not a route map, updated Dec. 20, 2023 (it says). If you click "Download", ignore the animated icon for "file generation in progress." It never finishes. Instead...

Thank you. I imported the CSV to it.

OK, did some text processing and I have a CSV combining the full station list with Appendix B (ownership). I excluded bus, which the ownership list doesn't cover anyway. Only 14 are missing from the ownership list: BNN, CNL, GCN, LEX, LKL, LTM, NSF, NYF, PLS, SAY, SPP, TRC, VAS, WMA. If...

Appendix B here has many of them, in no particular order: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/businessplanning/Amtrak-Stations-ALP-Appendix-FY22-27.pdf It was hard to find, then it was easy, right in Google. There's also a csv of stations...