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With this acquisition, they should look to increase capacity on the line to allow for a daily Cardinal!

A few weeks ago, I came across an article (posted below) that talks about funding a study on adding a Colorado Springs branch to the Southwest Chief. (I would call this section the Denver Chief or the Rocky Mountain Chief). While this sounds like a good idea, running it a little further north...

They've also been studying a new commuter rail line to Clarksville, TN. The proposal would use the Nashville and Western railroad to Ashland City, than re-lay tracks the rest of the way to Clarksville. While this may sound cost-prohibitive, the roadbed is still intact all the way to Clarksville...

The reason UP asked for so much money back in 2010 when Amtrak wanted to make the Sunset a daily train is because they were planning to double track much of the route themselves to improve capacity for their freight trains. When Amtrak asked UP for a daily Sunset, UP saw that as an opportunity...

Does this mean the San Joaquin trains are at risk of discontinuance?

Do the remaining derby trains still use the track at Louisville Union Station that was installed for the Kentucky Cardinal?

In this video, uploaded on May 2, 2019, you can clearly see that Amtrak ran a charter train to Louisville, KY for the Kentucky Derby this year. I didn't think Amtrak ran charter trains on tracks that don't see regular Amtrak service anymore. Did they change this rule, or is this an old video?

There ARE two more Talgo trainsets sitting in Beech Grove. (The ones Wisconsin refused to take delivery on). Maybe those can be used on a Portland-Boise service.

If you want a shorter bus ride, I'd say the Crescent to Birmingham and the new Thruway Bus to Nashville.

Due to population sizes, the closest rail service will EVER get to the UP of Michigan will be Green Bay, WI and Traverse City, MI. Those are the nearest metropolitan areas to that part of the state (and even those cities won't be seeing rail service anytime soon.) Michigan is in the early stages...

While there is better air service between major cities along the route of the Pioneer than there was in the 1990's, the opposite is true for smaller and mid sized towns along the route, some of which have no air service at all today. Intercity bus service along the corridor has also decreased in...

If Gulf Coast service to Florida is restored, that would only make it make even more sense to extend the Palmetto to Jacksonville to open up connections to a third train to the northeast. This would primarily be for those making connections to go to cities in North and South Carolina while being...

The City of Boise owns the out-of-service portion of the "Boise Cutoff," and is ready to allow it to be restored to passenger train standards should efforts to restore the Pioneer get serious. Therefore, there is no excuse to not serve Boise directly with a revived Pioneer.

That service model worked very well on the SL back in the 1990's, so much that it eliminated dining car losses. Amtrak needs to bring this service model back and expand it to all LD trains. This would allow them to meet the "no F&B losses mandate" while enhancing dining service across the...

This good news should also help with getting service restored between Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto.

I beg to differ on your statement that full dining service will never return to the trains losing it. Look back to the 24 hour diner experiment on the SL, which was successful on eliminating F&B losses on that train, while preserving full dining service. Once new leadership (both at Amtrak and...

Excuse me for reviving an old thread, but I have a question regarding the subject of the thread. Why won't the Commonwealth of Virginia take NS to the Surface Transportation Board to force the railroad to participate in the required capacity study? Using Amtrak's guaranteed track access...

This is one potential route from the Twin Cities to Sioux Falls, but another potential route would take the train via Mankato, serving more population in the process. The route would run southwest from SPUD to Worthington, where it would turn more westerly to get to Sioux Falls. You can follow...

In addition, that route also misses Louisville and Nashville, two cities that should be on the national network. South of Nashville, it can be routed through Chattanooga and Atlanta, then onto Florida, Sharing the Silver Service route south of Jacksonville.

With those plans, Amtrak should keep the Hoosier State's slot open for the potential daily Cardinal. This would reduce startup costs of this plan.