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Albuquerque is nice too.

Raton station La Junta

Actually, I believe the Swiss Federal Railways break even and perhaps show a small profit due to the quality of their service and the high level of patronage by people there. Between the trains and the buses that are well organized to connect with each other, you can get just about anywhere in...

"A year or two" sounds pretty optimistic. Still it sounds like progress is being made.

That has been my experience also. The attendants are usually great. Some other advantages of BC: If traveling alone there are the single seats on the right hand side. Also at North Station the BC is the first car after the NPCU, not so far to walk which one appreciates after traipsing around...

Very interesting. I just skimmed it but intend to go back and read it later. One question I had is what would be the mechanism for public control of the railroads, could the nation afford to buy them outright as that would be quite expensive. Also how would that affect Canada as both CN and CPKC...

I assume the wait in line to board thing is Amtrak using the airline model, as though that was the be all and end all for how to handle passengers.:rolleyes:

I thought the HHP-8 conversion to cab car program was supposed to be to replace the ex Metroliner cab cars. Seems to me taking an ordinary coach and making a cab car out of it would be quite a project, unlike demotoring an existing locomotive.

But if replacing your car with a newer model meant being without it for months at a time while the new car was being assembled, then you might elect to just repair the old car with new parts. I imagine installing constant tension would be very disruptive since I don't see how you could replace...

Wow, back when the Texas Eagle was a real train!

From what I see looking at Satellite View there might be room for a 3rd track at least in part, but definitely not 4 tracks.

I assume by "NJT is all 60 Hz" you mean lines that are exclusively NJT such as the former Lackawanna out of Hoboken. There is really no reason to convert from 25 Hz to 60 Hz and such a change would require a massive replacement of fairly modern solid state frequency converter substations plus...

True, although for this to be a useful service for people wanting to commute into North Station there would have to be an increase in frequency over the current sparse service. I have heard proposals of electrifying part of the line either with overhead catenary or using battery electric...

The cafe/BC car is usually at the South end attached to the NPCU.

I love some of your Oz expressions. "having a stickybeak" which in the UK would be translated as "being a nosy parker".:D

As a park and ride, leaving the current station especially at rush hour is a nightmare. The only issue with a Fitchburg line infill station for transfers is that you already have Porter Square fulfilling that function. Unless you want to make a bus connection to one of the many bus routes that...

You have to wonder if the same amount of money (probably less) had been invested in higher speed rail SFO - LAX - SAN on existing tracks including moving the LAX - SAN corridor away from the ocean, whether we would be better off. But that ship has sailed unfortunately.

From what I have seen from FB posts, there seems to be one Horizon car added to some (all?) of the 3 trainsets, not clear how many. So no more than 3 at present. I assume they are testing them out and we will probably see more of them heading north eventually.

Trains in Europe are not always luxurious. I remember traveling from Dunquerque to Metz in France overnight in a compartment of 8 people with a non reclining seat. Even when they have sleeping accommodations they are often couchettes, basically a person sized shelf in a compartment with 5 other...

When I took the Night Ferry in summer 1977 I distinctly remember riding in a set of the usual Southern Region "slam door" EMUs which ran non-stop from Victoria to Dover, with their characteristic traction motor whine.. I wonder if perhaps they ran as 2 sections with the Class 33 or 73 handling...