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The issue with placing it under King Street Station tracks is that it would have to deal with the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel that goes directly underneath the Great Northern tunnel, unless you want to give the Northbound approach steep grades. Placing it under the Union Station building...

It's going to involve an entirely new line, which applies both to HSR and future Sounder+Amtrak Cascades (the HSR line will follow I-5 and the new Sounder+Amtrak Cascades line will follow Washington State Route 99). After Neo-Union Station, the Coast Starlight and Empire Builder will be the only...

The Cascadia HSR is gonna introduce a dilemma since there's no way BNSF is going to let high speed trains operate on the GN tunnel nor would let its tracks be electrified (not without retunnelling the GN Tunnel to around 8m so double-stacks can operate safely under wire, which BNSF wouldn't...

The reason Seattle lacks affordable housing is because of Jeff Bezos. Also personally, I have a feeling that the old Union Station will come back and displace King Street Station as the main station for Seattle

They'll probably be transferred to new Corridor services, like the revived Quad Cities Rocket and Black Hawk, and maybe the upcoming Atlanta-Nashville and New Orleans-Mobile trains.

Looking at Bombardier's US (Plattsburgh, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; West Mifflin, PA; soon Pittsburgh, CA) and Canada (Thunder Bay, Kingston, La Pocatière) manufacturing facilities, Bombardier's Hornell location would have to be sold to someone else to prevent a loss in jobs as it would be redundant...

It seriously torpedoed their reputation. Also worth noting that if Metra (as well as NICTD) wants a new EMU they're gonna have to find a new manufacturer.

You can thank them having done goof with the bilevel calidots

Theyre being built back in Nagoya now

It was Florida That said, the F59PHs are going to be the first to go once GO Transit orders its electric locomotives

This about fleet replacement (though I will say the Series I-V railcars are in due need for a replacement given their age)? Meanwhile if GO's gonna buy electric locomotives, they're just gonna buy ACS-64s

They could just order more Nippon Sharyo DMUs

GO Transit has announced to electrify the Lakeshore West line between Union Station and Burlington, the Kitchener line between Union Station and Bramalea (including the Union Pearson Express), and the Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stoufville lines in their entirety. Given that they plan on buying...

I will say that the Coast Line needs realignment though, some of which are necessary (i.e. Cuesta tunnel, Vandenberg AFB bypass)

Guess it's time to revive attempts at buying the Coast Line for an SD-LA-SF Surfliner.

The Michigan tracks of the Wolverine are owned mostly by Amtrak and Michigan DOT. I do think the Coast Line can be brought from UPRR. It doesn't see a lot of freight traffic (especially when compared to the San Joaquin line). Amtrak and Caltrans can modernize it for enhanced Surfliner services...

How so? Care to elaborate?

What's making you think that

And Cajon is busy as is so Arizona & California is out of the table. We're gonna have to construct a new rail line between Coachella and Phoenix following I-10

Whilst a Phoenix-Tucson passenger rail line can be done under existing conditions, west of Phoenix the tracks are in such bad shape (as UPRR abandoned that line after 1996 and Amtrak couldn't afford to buy and upgrade it at the time) that completely new tracks would have to be laid. A new route...