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I think it’s just Philly - Harrisburg. I believe on the books if you ride NYP - PHL on a Keystone it’s credited as a Northeast Regional trip. Also if your travel on a Keystone train includes travel on the NEC north of Philly the ticket becomes a reserved seat. Trips within the Philly -...

They are going for tier IV emissions with the “possibility of carbon free propulsion” so rebuild freight units with HEP are likely off the table. For tier IV passenger units with HEP there’s the Charger, the EMD F125, and the MPI MPXpress. There are at present no tier IV passenger variants of a...

This is an often misunderstood concept. PRIIA 209 does not entirely place all of Amtrak’s costs on the state. It is a State-Federal cost sharing program. State subsidies are included in revenue. The loss on the state supported business line as a whole is covered by Federal subsidies -...

Sounds like there is one thing that will be similar to Amtrak’s approach. They are going with an accessible “core” semi permanently connected trainset where non accessible cars would be tacked on the ends of.

They are including a premium coach car which appears aimed at longer haul coach passengers. If they provide an enhanced experience in the "premium coach" car itself it could somewhat mitigate the absence of a lounge at least for some. As much as I love the Sightseers they don't really do you any...

A certain amount of back and forth along with amendments was not surprising in my view. It should be noted that there is not an off the shelf design here and with custom equipment that doesn’t exist there was always going to be a process here. Even if less amendments had been required and they...

While the situation shouldn’t have happened in the first place I’m somewhat encouraged to at least hear that the call to AGR helped resolve the situation. Amtrak needs to empower customer service to help resolve these on board situations through phone calls and digital channels and making it...

Trains magazine posted an article that stated that the carbuilders requested the two week extension. That would imply at least to me that one or more carbuilders have notified Amtrak of an intent to bid but need additional time to finalize things. Apparently there have had to be multiple...