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Reminds me of the scene in "Pushing Tin" where the air traffic controllers go out on the runway behind a "heavy" to experience wake turbulence.

I'd like to know as well. Some of the most recent changes happened in 1998. From my limited research the standards before that date were 800,000 lbs crush resistance ("buff strength") for locomotives, cab-control coach cars, and electric multiple units. Other cars were only 400,000 lbs...

The Storm Prediction Center has issued a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" Tornado Watch. This "enhanced" wording is used when multiple strong, long lasting tornadoes are predicted across an area. https://imgur.com/LSXlmy8 (link stolen from reddit) This is only the second time ever where the...

The Storm Prediction Center upgraded the outlook to "High Risk." This is not very common and wikipedia keeps a list of all of the High Risk days. The last High Risk days were in 2017.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/craptrainphotography/ would welcome your photos.

The DoD intentionally keeps two contractors in business on many projects for redundancy as well as to allow scaling up during war time. That's intentionally inefficient. We order nuclear subs from two contractors: GD and HII. One builds the bow sections, the other builds the stern sections...

Out of curiosity, what exactly is in the lower level space above the trucks on a Superliner? Is it all HVAC, batteries, and plumbing (potable + retention)? Is there any storage space?

BBD built bilevel coaches before building the multilevels. The multilevels were modified bilevels intended for NJT and Penn Station clearances. Once the production line started, however, other agencies (MARC) started ordering them to take advantage of the economies of scale. Certain aspects...

Add in: inability for railroads to change fares or drop routes and stations without a mother-may-I from both state and federal regulators. The Pennsy didn't help matters when they reported parent holding company income (which included profits from diversification and "separate" railroads like...

It doesn't say how they're speeding things up however, it does answer my earlier question of whether the local reps will fight for it: they are advocating for the service.

Another good question. With Amtrak itself, this years presidential proposal to gut LD was an exact mirror of last years proposal. Will the Indiana State Senators and Representatives from communities along the route argue, fight, and horse-trade to keep it?

Last I heard, they were waiting for 75th Street CIP to complete and "make room" before starting grand Crossing: http://www.75thcip.org/

Would that require the Cardinal/Hoosier to back into Chicago like the other CN-routed trains? Would hand-throwing a switch eat up all of the potential time savings? I know there was a hand-thrown switch west of Indianapolis that was migrated to CTC and that improved on-time performance. Was it...

So are they trying for a NPN-RVR bus? I don't know the area that well, would it hit traffic coming into Richmond? If it wouldn't then an RVR bus to meet 94 makes sense.

I know them well ;) although I try to get a rental car to keep the miles off of my new car. It isn't always possible like when traveling on Memorial Day and the rental office is closed Sunday (usually open) and Monday. It's been a while since I've done a TDY via Amtrak. Early in my career...

I doubt there's a cite. I skimmed and keyword searched this afternoon. For the record, the JTR covers DoD civilians and military. Now 400 miles is a "magic number" in the JTR. Trips father than 400 miles one way default to commercial air. However 400 miles is the also cutoff for a...