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Well, glad to hear that someone has heard about the same timeline/info from MnDOT as the RPA said in the recent AMA. As in, "the next couple of months" would be the same as "this spring." I wish that DOTs, Amtrak, and partners would put out more regular updates on projects like this--instead, we...

Correct, I took a screenshot of it but it refused to upload here for me. If I have time later, I will try to post it again for posterity's sake. If anyone has tips for how to include pictures in one of these posts, that would be helpful! Despite being a younger person some of the user interface...

As I mentioned briefly above, it was a screengrab of a 'story' or 'Reel' from the official Rail Passengers Association's Facebook/Instagram account. One of their staff (I think Joseph Aiello) was en route to Kansas City for the most recent FRA long-distance study meeting and did what is called...

Oh, darn! I guess I didn't add the picture properly--still new to how adding pictures to a post works here. All it was is a screengrab of a Instagram/Facebook 'Reel' from the RPA with the question of (paraphrasing) "When will the TCMC start?" And the answer being (paraphrasing) "It's rumored to...

Hi all! I said I'd post any legitimate updates on the potential start date/month for the TCMC that I see. All governemnt and local advocacy sources have been sadly silent on this for awhile now, but thanks to the RPA (as usual), we have a little bit of intel; see picture below. Basically, the...

Ha, I agree with your assessment completely! It's a somewhat wacko and unexpected route; I'm calling it the "squiggle" line due to how the line looks in western SD and down through WY into Denver. I'm a Minnesotan and I really don't think that this would be the best investment of Amtrak's focus...

Ha, I felt the same about Minnesota (my home state) until I read this!! Making MnDOT, of highway and EVs-over-all-else-loving fame look good is...sure something!

Yes, you are 100% correct, MARC Rider. Current speeds between Mpls and St. Paul are atrociously slow and would require significant investment to not add on a huge amount of time in making the first stop at TFS and moving between the two stations. It would be an enormous separate project. Without...

Exactly! I do understand why people have concerns about lacking a "direct connection," but there's truly a lot of options available.

Well, yes and no! Yes, because they didn't get any of the Federal-State Partnership capital/construction funding, so they can't (to my knowledge) get any until the next round of funding's announced around this time next year. (And so, construction and everything else prior to construction can't...

Eh, I feel it was pretty darn accurate for the trips I've taken since they started showing it, so that was nice. Honestly, though, I just liked it! It was interesting to see roughly how fast tickets were selling (beyond the price proxy) and how crowded I could expect my trip to be, etc. I never...

Pretty simple question, as per the title of this post: I've not seen this discussed elsewhere, but did Amtrak suddenly stop listing the percent full/sold information during online booking?! I've thought this was a helpful and interesting feature, but when I was gaming out some potential trips...

To keep this thread about the TCMC, and not deviate too much the NLX, which has a separate thread, I'll take the converse of your question: Extending the TCMC to Minneapolis Target Field Station (TFS) from St. Paul Union Depot (SPUD). It's not anything about distance or wear and tear--it's...

Re: Eau Claire, you're right about it giving them a "seat at the big boy table," so to speak. I can speak to Eau Claire, being from MN--the funding situation as announced is fairly confusing to even the average Amtrak rider. There's a coalition (West Central Wisconsin Rail Coalition) that has...

Yes, exactly! RPA's thoughts in their email from today on what Corridor ID as a program and what the studies will do puts it very clearly: "Corridor ID will act as a pipeline for developing projects. It will help advance routes to a stage where they are ready to break ground, while maintaining...

I feel your pain and empathize! Although the Twin Cities and a couple towns in eastern Minnesota would benefit from several of the Wisconsin proposals, MnDOT's MN-specific proposals were almost entirely left out. Only the Northern Lights Express to Duluth received anything. Nothing for the key...

Georgia's announcement; two of the three routes receiving study dollars have already been mentioned (Charlotte - Atlanta high speed; Nashville - Atlanta). The third is the Atlanta to Savannah corridor via Athens, Augusta, and Macon...

Wisconsin Corridor ID awards: Milwaukee to Green Bay: The proposed Corridor would connect the existing Hiawatha service between Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI with an extension to Green Bay, WI. Senator Baldwin submitted a letter of support for the project, which can be found here. Milwaukee to...

North Carolina really cleaned up when it came to Corridor ID, I have to say. As discussed earlier in this thread, they submitted 11 corridors to the program and received a total of $3.5 million to study 7 of them, which is impressive! The routes/improvements selected to study include (Thanks...

Add the Nashville - Chattanooga - Atlanta corridor to the list. Article link here. Excerpt from the article: