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Sure wish the retail/food stuff could be moved elsewhere (above the parking ramp?) so that this glorious vista could reappear.

There's room for a platform next to the existing 2 tracks. The elevated structure supporting them used to hold 5 other freight tracks and an express track. As for what part of the building Amtrak might use (never rule out a "temporary" shed), best to go with the famous quote in the movie "Annie...

The proposed routing (use of the Essex Terminal and proceeding directly from Dearborn to the MC Depot) was all laid out in this joint Amtrak-VIA document which was presented to Windsor City Council. https://transportation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Detroit-Windsor-Fact-Sheet.pdf

What board do you refer to, the RPA?

Couldn't help but laugh at the description of the CSX Detroit-Grand Rapids line as an "extremely busy railroad."

June 28 article with optimistic statements from VIA CEO, though of course still sufficiently vague to protect him. To be clear, this isn't Ford's headache. Passenger service was never promised by them, it isn't why the station was renovated. All the work & funding will have to come from the...

This shows the 2 remaining freight tracks, on a structure that originally held 7 of them, plus an express freight track and platform. Plenty of room to add a couple of passenger side tracks and platforms. Ford demolished all the passenger track structures. But the remaining freight track support...

All gone. This floor remnant is the only surviving piece of the "subway" passage which accessed the stairs up to the platforms. This area behind the depot has yet to be built out; hopefully Ford will build a direct passageway to the remaining tracks for future use. Ample room exists there to...

The latest news is from May 16. It says "Preliminary project design is complete, with the railways seeking Canadian federal government funding in June for the remaining phases". It would use an upgraded Essex Terminal Ry. line to access CP...

Was never a CN passenger depot, but CN acquired it from Conrail in 1985 and its track department used it. Windsor Star, 11/16/96:

Get the regional atlases published by Steam Powered Video from ca. 1993 to the early 2010s (Great Lakes East, Mountain Plains, Appalachia & Piedmont etc). They attempt to show all common carriers, isolated lines and interurbans that were ever built, and managed to complete all of the US and...

And the CSX crossing isn't even adjacent. It's 3 miles away. Amtrak has an extra large blue sign there, see attached. In any case, the tow truck driver & police had no excuse for not knowing to check the sign.

You'd also have to lock CN and CP in the room with any Toronto-Windsor-Detroit discussions (maybe not CN if it's continuing an existing train past Windsor). Plus Conrail Shared Assets if the train continues past MC Depot in Detroit.

The bridge isn't open (except for extremely rare instances when the south track has to be used by Amtrak), that museum gate has never been used, and the agent I talked to doesn't even know who has the keys to the gate. Amtrak is probably barely aware it exists, and wouldn't care anyway.

You can thank sleepwalking city officials in 1969, and management of the Penn Central, Burlington, Milwaukee Road and GM&O which destroyed the skylit original concourse. Ever since then we've been crammed into the basement of a bland office building, smothered with low ceilings and a forest of...

Brooklyn Rd. was realigned at that spot to eliminate two sharp curves when the underpass was removed, sometime between 1987 and 1991. 1979 photo:

Also could be a problem on the opposite end getting out of Pontiac, as they're on CN and then CRSA until Dearborn. Then there's the 2 miles on CN through Battle Creek.

The order to run on CN at least 32 axles (IIRC) started with the April 27, 2004 crash of Amtrak 364 and a vehicle in Charlotte, MI, killing 2. The gates hadn't fully lowered by the time the train entered the crossing. On May 24 at the same crossing, the protection didn't activate until a train...

Only six hours if you fly, probably Amtrak management's preference.

Of course, those times reflect running on the NYC/Canada Southern Ry. racetrack through St. Thomas, ON. All gone now except for fragments around Windsor and Welland. Now you'd have to get from Buffalo to Windsor via Hamilton and London- or much more likely, via Cleveland and Toledo.