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I agree, but that's a three hour schedule at worst. Vending cafes would make sense on, say, the Hiawatha or Piedmont, but aren't as good on longer runs like this or, hypothetically, the Borealis.

They manage 30 minute engine changes already. I don't think a two hour hold is insurmountable.

Do I recognize Archer's Enterprise in your username?

Precision Sabotage Railroading? Now that I've said it, setting yourself up with no capacity for the unexpected really does fit that name.

If it means corridor service stays affordable or becomes viable, yes. A mediocre train is better than driving myself.

The station is a terminus and requires the train to stop at the platform between the morning eastbound and afternoon westbound runs, plus overnight. It's a busy two track main and the host railroad and port definitely aren't willing to introduce a single track bottleneck. That's why they want a...

Forget reroute rights, get some Airo equipment into the Midwest pool set up for DC power and diesel, set up code sharing to streamline ticketing, and get the Detroit/Windsor/Pontiac trains running more frequently via the SSL, with a transfer to the SSL in South Bend. Edit: I was thinking...

There's also the potential issue when Brightline hit their planned consist length, that even a half cafe car in the middle of the consist for convenience represents 30+ revenue seats lost. On peak travel hours that's likely to be significant if they continue to fill trains. Their planned seats...

I'm sure citizens from Florida to Boston appreciate the slow zone for Ashland's train festival every day, and will continue to appreciate the bottleneck as service expands on the Southeast Corridor.

Having a different schedule on certain days runs into substantial interoperability issues with freight meets, issues with staff schedules, and sometimes causes problems getting equipment ready to go back out.

They have cars ordered for seven car consists, with three batches of ten due this year soon, this year or early next, and sometime 2025. It's not clear if all the cars are SMART or if #21-30 are a different configuration. As far as anyone knows, there's no ordered equipment that has non-cart...

And this is even more true with the tight center to center distance on most of the NEC.

If there's slim to no through passengers and mostly people making intermediate connections, then the intermediate connections are just about all duplicated, and ALL broken through connections have some kind of alternative. If the near full distance ride is important, most of the riders still...

The eventual plan for Midwest routes generally is to run approx. 3 Venture coaches, one Venture Cafe/Coach, and one Venture Business/Coach. Notably the Venture Business cars are all split about 2/3 business and 1/3 coach seating, and some +/- on the number of coaches, or even removal of business...

Specifically, Ashland refused any bypass option to maintain trains through their downtown on the existing two track main. One of the bypass options considered would have been largely unsuitable for passenger traffic and single track, but ideal for routing hazmat freight around town and...

Anecdotally it seems like a relatively rare problem, which if the coupling specs for disconnecting the semipermanent couplings are met, there shouldn't be a major issue beyond the existing trouble with setting out a mid-consist car. I also wish the cars were a bit more modular, with e.g. a...

I think they matched the old support style for visual impact reasons?

They are an orphan fleet (see also Piedmont in NC, the NCDOT would like to get something with a manufacturer that's still in business - and preferably not a reman locomotive either!) and it's been suggested that Horizons would hang around longer. Also, the tilting equipment is not looked on...

EMPHATIC disagreement here. Ashland is going to be a bottleneck for decades, the biggest freight/passenger conflict point north of Raleigh. They fought hard to keep HAZMAT running through their downtown for character, as well as maintaining numerous at-grade and pedestrian crossings and a major...

For comparison's sake, what happens now when LD equipment has to be set out mid-trip? Particularly the food service cars - I can see how displacing passengers is unfortunate but possible. Cooking in a roomette is much harder.