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I don't recall any proposals for service to the UP, at least not in these North-South proposals. Crossing the Straits of Mackinac would be enough of a barrier to make that an expensive proposition.

That is still true today on many overnight sleeper trains, according to rail travel videos I have seen, where at best you might get a cup of coffee and perhaps a roll or snack in the morning.

California High Speed Rail should almost be done by then :D

Also as I recall, New Haven CT is also like this with the tunnel under the tracks. Philadelphia 30th St. upper level also has stairs and escalators to the track level, which is not currently used by Amtrak, although in the early days I believe there were some Keystone trains that originated at...

The second option, building the Readville facility, does not solve the problem of how the Downeaster consists get swapped out. Looks like the third option, making MassDOT's contractors keep access to the Grand Junction bridge open during construction, is the only viable one.

I'm not sure what the market for this train is. Once you get past Gardner, you are past the Boston Metro commuting area (I used to live near Gardner and commuted part time into Metro Boston) although I suppose if you were mostly WFH and only went in once a week or so it might be tolerable from...

This comparison with Thameslink in London seems to me to be a bit of a red herring. Thameslink was a new service that was routed through the city center by cobbling together bits of existing unused infrastructure such as the Snow Hill tunnel and the Metropolitan's City Widened Lines right of...

Yes if they are LD trains like the Lakeshore Corridor Proposal then they would be funded by Amtrak. A Cleveland - Chicago train would only be 341 miles so would come under the state supported category, so either Ohio would have to pay the whole thing or get Indiana to pony up.

Yes there are several instances of this on this map, for example the Boston to Montreal segment Concord NH to White River Jct. that had track removed decades ago. Also the "Phoebe Snow" route New York to Buffalo via Scranton and Binghamton which would require restoring the cutoff track through...

I agree, the fact that Indiana is involved probably dooms it. At best it would be a situation like the Downeaster where Maine essentially subsidizes service that NH gets for free.

It varies depending on the line. The subsurface lines (Metropolitan, Circle, District, H&C) are getting CBTC as part of the "4 lines modernisation programme" which will eventually enable ATO on these lines. The Northern, Jubilee, Central and Victoria Lines already have ATO. The Bakerloo and...

From looking at the OpenRailwayMap it looks like much of the route has been built upon south of Bonita Springs including housing developments and an airport. They may have to find a new route into Naples. Also, I don't see how a route from Tampa to Naples could go through St. Petersburg given...

It seems none of the plans talk about what seems to me to be an obvious route: a daytime Cleveland - Chicago train which would also serve Toledo, Elkhart and South Bend as well as other towns, at a more reasonable time than the LSL or Capitol/Floridian. It would take about 6 hours. The drive is...

You could put the phone in Airplane mode which should still allow you to use WiFi if it is available.

I wonder, how extensive is the adoption of TPWS in the UK? I was under the impression that there are still lines that only have AWS, although they may be ones with little traffic or freight only. (TPWS is an ATC type system that will stop a train if it passes a red signal, whereas the older AWS...

That sounds like an upgrade from the PC food service I remember. A guy sitting in the rear seats of an ex PRR P70 coach selling cold sandwiches and snacks out of a cardboard box on the seat.

I wonder how they handled heating those "hot tray meals" ?

The Siemens Vectron platform already supports the German/Swiss 15 KV 16.7 Hz electric supply so I assume the NECs 12 KV 25 Hz shouldn't be far off enough to be a problem. So I don't see needing to convert the NEC to 60 Hz being a requirement in the near term.

The reports seem to be blaming this on operator error. From the picture it almost looks like the first car split the switch with the front heading to Medford and the rear to Union Sq. I wonder if the operator moved over the switch while it was changing from the Medford to Union Sq routing. To do...

Well the strike has happened. The 2 sides could not agree on a wage increase plus there are differences over policy towards automation. Initially there might not be much of an effect as companies stocked up anticipating a walkout, but if it goes on for a while that could be a problem...