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https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133462/hurricane-helene-quartz-microchips-solar-panels-spruce-pine With deaths approaching 200, just a note about the CSX line north of Asheville. The quartz mined from these very old mountains is essential to the semiconductor industry, with little chance...

Many passengers use their phone as a WiFi hotspot to their laptop. I always do this and have never used Amtrak WiFi. The $500 rig described is a cellular modem with WiFi plus a big cellular antenna than plugs into it. That plays the role of the phone. Additionally you can use its WiFi connection...

Better coffee machines are showing up in big gas stations. Sheetz has the same ones I've seen elsewhere, with fresh beans on the top and a grinder built-in, single pours. At Sheetz all the machines are like this, while other places still have one additional machine, the old type with flavored...

From Wikipedia. City of Miami: Chicago - Champagne-Urbana - Cairo - Jackson TN - Corinth - Birmingham - Columbus GA - Waycross - Jax - Miami South Wind: Chicago - Indianapolis - Nashville - Birmingham - Montgomery - Waycross - Jax - Miami Dixieland: Chicago - Terre Haute - Nashville -...

Asheville is accessible from the south, but the water plant is out. Hundreds of miles of highways further out are closed, parts covered in mud or demolished. Here's what NC 511 https://drivenc.gov/ says about I-40: "This is a long-term closure, the estimated clearance time is unknown." The...

D is discharge only, R is receive only, on RPA's timetables, which do have notes. They look like Amtrak's old timetables. But there are errors. The RPA volunteers can't be expected to make new PDF's every time schedules are slightly adjusted. The complex NEC situation though leads to outright...

One story had it at $510m for the Duluth interchange. For some context, the county is 201K, and metro Duluth including the Wisconsin side is 327K. That's not quite in top 100 in the US, but it's the second largest metro MN. And the city is built below a cliff in the Iron Range. A good part of...

I agree half the value in the older timetables were the notes. Do LD trains still do discharge-only and boarding-only stops on the NEC?

It's predictable when a train is running late that it will need a new crew, except for the cafe worker, who just keeps working. Yet there is often a long delay. The same thing happened on a northbound Cardinal at Wilmington. The new crew came in from Philadelphia, which took about two hours. It...

If you don't trust Wikipedia, here is a handy snapshot from Amtrak Service Asset Line Plans FY22-27. The numbers include the base order and 10 short-term options, exercised in 2023, for a total of 83 sets. (The options were 8 B-2's and 2 C's.) Notes, in addition to all the good features we know...

Tracks under tracks were in a 2012 plan called "NextGen Northeast High-Speed Rail." The new plan is different and does not have tracks under tracks. The lower level concourse seems to have the same footprint, but there are also three new concourses at the lower level. It's fun to look for the...

The Tide light rail in Norfolk stops at the Virginia Beach city line, because there was a narrow referendum vote in VB against extending it. The right-of-way you mention is what the Tide uses, and it is still mostly clear to the oceanfront, but maybe has been obstructed some since the vote. A...

I don't know where I heard or read that neighborhood opposition in Georgetown stopped Metro in that part of NW, back when Metro was built. The article https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/11/10/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-nonexistent-georgetown-metro-stop-is-wrong/ agrees it is a...

The High Speed Rail Alliance covered Texas in another good video, with guest Peter LeCody, President of Texas Rail Advocates. Local politics are discussed, and the Q&A is valuable. The last answer has praise for Brightline customer service, and he says "they're interested in Texas." Summary:

As for the ship itself, it's been cleared of cargo and somewhat repaired in Norfolk and will soon sail to China, presumably for more repairs. Arriving in Norfolk with a large escort: https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-06-26/dali-cargo-ship-virginia-maryland-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-repairs...

Super interesting. From Roaming Railfan's videos of Brightline Florida construction: One tunnel under 528 was an innovation European slip'n'slide method, first time in the US, in order to keep at least one lane open each way on 528. It took many weeks to get it ready for horizontal hydraulic...

From the article, the power outage was 90 minutes. Water ran out near the end. I don't need to recap the whole article, but the train was close enough to a road to get pizza and an ambulance. When they transferred passengers to a new train, they called the pompiers - firefighters. Seems...

Seems like East-west will be the next thing after the New River Valley station and the big Richmond to Raleigh project. Richmond to DC is under construction. The NS mainline from Roanoke to a New River Valley station (Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Va. Tech) is likely is good shape, compared to...

If you don't get an answer here, the nycrail reddit is pretty good at questions like this. Ah, https://new.mta.info/agency/long-island-rail-road/timetables has timetables both before and after Sept. 3 too, and notes about Oct. 14. Ronkonkona.

"During the transition to the new station, Thruway Bus service will continue to stop at the old station through August 29." (Thruways run between NPN and NFK for some trains, and also Virginia Beach a few blocks from the ocean.) Looks like northbound NPN trains depart six minutes later at the...