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First class, business and flex are fully refundable any time before departure. Points lose 10%. That's how I read it.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. These should not have to be OIG investigations. They were initiated in the fall of 2023, not completed: Long‐Distance Fleet Replacement Program Pre-Award Procurement And it's not clear the OIG is a cure-all. The report on the Acela Avelias was good, maybe...

Thanks for bringing this up. I'm fascinated by the portals on the lower level, as seen in the picture below from Wikimedia Commons. I suppose the original station had access to the platforms from both the concourse one level up, and from here. I'd been under the misconception that the new plan...

Amtrak OIG issues a lot of reports, but I don't see anything specific. I did notice report on a "REDACTED" facility with 26 employees who regularly get attacked by trespassers, once with a hammer, from May 9, 2023. OIG would seem to be the place to ask about Chicago maintenance. Searching on...

Amtrak did a reverse move within a day or two, and the ticket went back to $16.

Take it for what it's worth, but I perused Ed Pierson's 737 Max Incident Reports, and it seemed the most common raw, but official, reports and resolutions were: Engine readings. De-icing cockpit lights staying on, etc. (We know there's no timer.) Electrical issues, such as exit lights, often...

I didn't quite understand this. Tri-rail is cheaper and makes more stops. People who can afford BL will take it if it's more or less as close to their destination. If/when commuter rail opens on the FEC corridor, that will be a different matter. In the meantime, the competing train services to...

Need an FOIA or OIG doc on what locomotives are failing and what's going on in Chicago. There's so much GE and Siemens feeling out there it's hard to evaluate. As always, the Transit Costs Project at NYU got it right: transparency, or as much as business allows.

A Dominic Gates story, offering tentative answers to many questions that have come up, has just posted: Errors by Boeing at Renton plant led to Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout, industry source says It includes a diagram of how the plug is attached. He covers a purported insider account of the QA...

Bottom line, you don't want passengers in your yard, for any number of reasons.

That's the crazy thing, every railroad in the world has to do this. The NYC Subway has many rules that are enforced. It has a new thing to check possibly homeless/unhoused/railfan 📸 passengers who don't get off at the end of the line, even if the train's not going to the yard...

We're all in that boat. The S-Line, NC/VA, for example can go for months or years without new information. There's a local organization in Western NC, https://captrail.org/ The studies do have a purpose, to spend wisely. The agencies are not treating this like an emergency bridge repair. Planet...

Crimminy, the customer service reps should have this taped to their cubicles. Hope they brought the dog and it was friendly. Would be better if the station manager had acted, assuming they were asked to.

Not one, but two hyperloops in the thing I quoted! Reminds me of the hype over the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin. I was involved in applying for an economic development grant way back when. The projects range in quality, for sure. Every community that knows about them wants them. In our case, a...

There's a timeline - I imagine they're evaluated individually and against each other, depending on the funds available. Then Step 2: show me the money. https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/2023-11/2023%20CORT%20Corridor%20ID%20Briefing_101123_PDFa.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/19/virginia-youngkin-arena-metro-democrats/ Previously the WP reported the arena as the "largest-ever public subsidy for a project of its kind." The NFL Commanders (or the Washington Football Team, a name some remember fondly) are also hunting...

Similar to the MBTA, with an in-state manufacturing plant built by a company that, due to the results, will never get another contract.

The local governments and organizations pushed the state to ask for funds for studies. The Toledo area is cooperating with the Detroit area. The result, December 2023: An improvement in Ohio policy. States can submit state freight and pax rail plans to the FRA every four years (50 including...

Trying to i.d. the white convertible in the first picture, with right-hand drive by the way, I came across a picture at the show with the vintage DC Metro Bus #1912: https://clcpotomacregion.org/2023washingtonautoshow.htm According to the good people at Flickr, it's originally from Baltimore...

It did built the trestles wide enough for double tracking on the high-speed line. And it used some innovative techniques. My fascination with Roaming's videos began with the second tunnel under 528, the slip tunnel. One piece of European equipment was blurred out because it was proprietary. BL...