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Yes, at street level. All railroad tracks are/will be up a level.

Initial construction will have 2 tracks with an island platform, accessed from below. There is provision for a third track with a side platform, accessed directly from the station. This arrangement should provide enough capacity to support expanded Piedmont and SEHSR service as well as frequent...

Amtrak is absolutely correct that the main opportunity for passenger rail growth is in the regional corridors which, as Brightline/Virgin says, are "too short to fly but too long to drive". But, as Brightline/Virgin are implementing, the best such routes will support/require much more frequent...

Berghoff's is OK; not as close to authentic German as it was. Some say it never was! My favorite downtown restaurant is Italian Village, at 71 W. Monroe, from 1927, one of the oldest in Chicago. It's actually 3 restaurants in one, each on each floor, each with a different ambiance, and price...

I work near Union Station and stopped by the Avis/Budget counter today. They also keep their cars in the Amtrak-owned garage that will be demoed in the fall. They are also going to close and are looking for a garage as close as they can (there are none very close). In response to an earlier post...

I see in Trains Newswire today that TriRail is planning service to the Miami Central Station, as soon as they can get integrating PTC sorted out. Can/should Amtrak Silver trains be doing this too? They could use the Virgin high level platforms. Moving to the Airport do not seem to be going well...

I think that Long Bridge is likely to be in place before Virginia adds much more service into DC. See the website: http://longbridgeproject.com/

Certainly there should be something like Heathrow Express. But the combination of the Northwest suburbs and O'Hare are a big enough market to justify extending intercity service too, so passengers from beyond Chicago would not need to transfer to get to the Midwest's primary international...

State-supported intrastate trains are one of the primary things that Amtrak does, and they have made clear that they would like to do more. These are the the "Section 209" services. Pricing is fairly standardized. States like NC and CA save a lot of money by providing their own rolling stock...

The most logical place for a new Midwest central facility would be next to O'Hare Airport, on the site of the ex-CN, ex-Wisconsin Central, ex-Soo Schiller Park Yard. All Midwest Corridor trains from the east and south should terminate at O'Hare not only to serve the busiest airport in the...

I think that what many people are missing in this discussion is that as much as Amtrak would like to focus on corridors (the recent Gardner column in Railway Age is their most explicit statement to date, they are not structured in a way they could, actually, implement them. Experience around the...

I'm wondering whether these cars will be configured to permit MU door operation at low level platforms (as well as high level platforms), as provided on some SEPTA commuter cars. This is not an issue for Brightline as all of their stations have high level platforms. This question may have...