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Anyone know why it's a lockdown not a strike? The companies want to control the timing or the tactics? I'll bite. Many goods can only be moved by rail, water, or sometimes pipeline. I believe the material that was exploded in East Palestine, OH, was prohibited from highway transportation. As...

Virginia is financially conservative, but before getting into all that, there seem to be few examples in the US and Canada (and Mexico?) of new or planned intercity good frequency and/or electrification. The West Coast, plus Brightline Florida, maybe that's all? The Empire Service in NY is...

I just see the President cutting the ribbon for the new Acela platform this spring, and three weeks ago reports that the scaffolding is down on the station, but construction has stopped because of an unexpected cost increase. The concourse bridge over the tracks is done. I really had it...

The article, from FreightWaves/Trains-com, doesn't say all priority trains are gone. I guess that agrees with what you wrote, but to clarify: Livestock and cold goods: is this new? The Norfolk Southern web site does say it ships cold goods. But under agricultural, just grains and fertilizer...

Perhaps it was this link, and thank goodness for the Wayback Machine. Click on "California" for L.A.: http://web.archive.org/web/20190304054014/http://www.harveyhouses.net/

A brief history of the two-decade process to replace the Belmont Bridge: Over over under OK, it's an article about a bridge in Charlottesville, over the Cardinal tracks, but it's interesting. Environmental and NIMBY concerns are not as advanced in Virginia as in New England and on the West...

Just another reason to make the Cardinal daily! And improve the Lakeshore Limited.

The Pullman Porters union (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) is such an interesting part of labor history. On the other hand, no one wants Amtrak to become the US Postal Service of the 1990s (I knew people that worked there). On the other-other hand, the USPS is no longer known for workplace...

Great news. A crummy company had control of the place. Not discounting anyone else's experience, but as an occasional user of WAS since the late 1970s, when you had to walk around the remnants of the Bicentennial pit, I've never been approached aggressively there. Fort Lauderdale, 2023, that...

Tiny in the scope of things, but the Cardinal even takes the worse route from Charlottesville to Orange in Virginia, compared to all other Amtrak trains. It's verrrry slowww on the first stretch, and ends up about 20 minutes slower over 44 miles. (The junction at CVS is 3/4 a diamond, so it's...

Yeah, that was a terrible run-on sentence of mine. I meant to say the stars were aligned politically for Brightline, not that those entities provided funding. The tax-free bonds, I suppose we don't know who bought them. I saw them described as "private placement," but don't know anything about...

Brightline Florida has had three sources of government funding, besides the easy political path paved by Tallahassee, Grupo Mexico, the toll road authority, the airport authority, and energy company FPL, always a big player in Florida politics, and source of the arguably greenwash diesel...

https://bikeleague.org/ (formerly League of American Wheelmen) should be on top of this?

Add in risk aversion and NJT equipment fouls. But on CrowdStrike Day, July 19, Amtrak stood proud while the airlines went blue screen.

Thanks, that's amazing and led me to read the two Wikipedia pages on the matter. Reminds me of Disney's district in Florida. Also brings to mind the many semi-public entities and state agencies with their own revenue. PANYNJ must be the largest. But that's another matter. In the case of Moffat...

Ashland would only agree to three things: no widening, underpass, overpass or bypass; an ADA platform with a better ped crossing in the tracks (many other ped crossings around town are just cut up railroad ties); and passenger information screens (not done yet, apparently). The resistance to...

Leading up to the First World War, the railroads were in flux, with Pres. T.R. at the turn of the century, labor action, the newly formed ICC harming profits and efficiencies, and of course the longstanding problem of workers being maimed and killed - all this as the age of robber barons...

Not to be a broken record, but Amtrak say the Borealis can get Amfleet carriages and another frequency, if Minnesota pays. Maybe that was loose talk by Amtrak, don't know. And Virginians know that northbound the LD's will likely be late, as with the eastbound Empire Builder. In olden days, fine...

Barges between Washington and Alaska carry a lot of non-railroad traffic too. A company I worked for shipped a palette from China to Tacoma to Alaska. It was easy, since the distributor was in Tacoma and explained to us how to set it up. Thrice weekly barges if I recall. The US Postal Service...

It's a shame to read this about IND station. The Cardinal is likely to go daily, but I suppose on the same schedule. The 3C+D at least has local support, in northeast Ohio. As the big city, with contrasting politics to the state, maybe there is significant local support. Or, as the big city...