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Alstom manufactured the Surfliner cars after inheriting the California Car design (a derivative of the Superliner) from Morrison-Knudsen (note that their US plant was previously used by Morrison-Knudsen) As for Bombardier selling their designs to Alstom, Alstom has designs that are redundant...

I'm talking about costs, and new rolling stock is a lot cheaper than electrifying non-electrified tracks, and with the difficulty of electrifying non-electrified tracks (not just costs but also the freight railroads exercising a lot of power, even on tracks they don't own, because double-stacks...

It would cost more to electrify non-electrified tracks when compared to buying new rolling stock. Also, let's be honest, east of Jamaica, they should replace third rail with 25 kV 60 Hz AC overhead wires but that would require having the M7As, M3As and M9s to run on overhead wires.

For non-electrified operations, Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Railroad use electro-diesel locomotives hauling coaches. Instead of having a heavy locomotive hauling coaches, both railroads can invest in buying dual-mode EMUs (using a battery in place of diesel), which are lighter, quieter...

The SC44's height is 12 ft 6 in (14 ft 4 in with roof shroud), which is shorter than the ALP-45DP, which is 14 ft 5.5 inches and does run to New York Penn Station. But the SC-44 would be prohibited from running into Penn Station anyways because it's diesel only and Penn Station prohibits...

Somewhat related to the LOSSAN Corridor rebuild idea that I posted, the San Bernardino line is the only other line that is most likely to be electrified (and pretty much the first to be electrified if Metrolink plans on electrification). In tandem with the Foothill Extension, Metrolink can start...

There's nothing wrong with them (other than seemingly lacking steps for low platforms, which is the standard outside of the NEC due to the freight railroads). What happened with Nippon Sharyo's order was that redesigning it would delay the project by at least two years and thus place the...

The bilevels were to be the CALIDOT cars but Nippon Sharyo done goofed so we get the Viaggio cars from Siemens, and let's be honest we need a completely new bilevel car design

unless it's the Acela

A little food for thought: The CAF plant in Elmira was formerly used by Sumirail (Sumitomo Rail) (1986-1989), ABB and later ADTranz (early 1990s-2000). After ADTranz completed their final order for SEPTA's Market-Frankford line, with no new work on the horizon, they were going to close it down...

Madison does have a bus service that serves the airport

BN already has 2 northern transcons (the GN and NP), and 3 Cascade crossings (GN's Stevens Pass crossing, NP's Stampede Pass crossing, and SP&S's Columbia River crossing into Portland), and MILW's Snoqualmie Pass crossing parallels the NP's route. Though it makes me wonder what if the Union...

Canadian Pacific would be obvious but it's likely going to be redundant with their own Canadian transcon so maybe it could go to Union Pacific instead (it would give them a Northern transcon to compete with BNSF's counterpart) although it's unknown if either would be willing to maintain the...

One of the biggest reasons the Milwaukee Road went under was the decision to de-energize the Pacific Extension and go to diesels during the 1970s. That decade was when the 1973 Oil Crisis happened, which caused freight railroads like the Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern, Santa Fe and Union...

There is one rail line in construction: The Mexico City-Toluca train, and it's not really high speed since it will run at 160 km/h. Also it will terminate at Metro Observatario, which is west of Buenavista (I can imagine it would increase the costs a lot by building a tunnel link to that station...

Is Cajon Pass that expensive? What's keeping a new Cajon Pass rail line from being made. Certainly a Tejon Pass rail can be done (at least theoretically).

Forgot to mention this but there's also the possibility of Transmashholding establishing base in Mexico by acquiring Bombardier's Ciudad Sahagún plant if Alstom chooses not to retain it. Given the Mexican government's attempts in re-establishing passenger rail (so far it's just been the Mexico...

But given that Plattsburgh NY pretty likely does not want to suffer a loss in jobs...

With Bombardier to sell its rail equipment to Alstom, its factory in Plattsburgh, NY is very likely not going to be retained by Alstom as they already have a factory in Hornell, NY. This would lead to Alstom having to sell it to someone else. The other railcar manufacturers either have a...

Having the trains go through Downtown Seattle will be the best option. It may be more expensive, sure, but it will get far more riders than having it go through Bellevue and Redmond, as Alon Levy shows. Also Union Station lies right next to King Street, so I think both stations can just be...