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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27807/long-freight-trains-ensuring-safe-operations-mitigating-adverse-impacts Recommendations: "SUMMARY ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS Longer Manifest Trains Can Create New and Heightened Safety Risks Requiring Active Control Communities Experiencing...

I busted my tail getting down to Washington in the "blizzard" in order to attend the TRB meeting, and one of my favorite things is to attend the committee subcommittee meetings. Here's some stuff from the Commuter Rail Subcommittee. https://trbap0654.blogspot.com/ Here's a PowerPoint deck...

So they cancelled my Amtrak rez for this morning last Saturdsy, I figured no bog deal, I'll just take MARC. I checked last evening, and they said they were going to run on the R snow schedule. So I get up at an ungodly hour clear about an inch of fluffy snow off my car and drive down to Penn...

We had some business up in Boston, so the whole family (wife, daughter and me) went up on Amtrak. Only a true masochist would drive from Baltimore to Boston, and even if the airplane is faster, I don't relish the short flights during the holiday season. We went up on a Sunday, the Acelas were...

A few pictures from our three days in Toronto. I arrived the day before and stayed at a Mariott Courtyard Hotel at Younge and College, a 10 minute ride by the subway to Union Station. Surprise, my Presto card from last year had 9 bucks of credit on it. Not sure where that came from, unless I...

Part 1 -- Baltimore to Albany Northeast Regional 114 was scheduled to leave Baltimore at 10:53 AM, so I ordered a Lyft for 9:50 to make sure I got to the station on time. As happened the driver came early, so I got to Penn Station before 10. When I got in the station, I saw there was a...

On my ride up to Albany yesterday, we passed a couple of Metro-North Poughkeepsie trains being pushed by dual-mode diesel/electric power south towards Grand Central Terminal. We were south of Croton-Harmon in both cases, and what was interesting was that as we passed the train, it was obvious...

Looks like track 3 through the station is being completely replaced. Track numbering at this station is odd. One platform has tracks 1 and 3, the other has 2 and 4.

There has been a discussion of bustitutions in some recent threads, so I thought it might be a good idea to have a special bustitution thread where we can discuss the topic in more detail. Bustitutions are a 2-edged sword. On the one hand, using a bus bridge to break up a long-distance route...

Take a look at this: https://www.mta.maryland.gov/schedule/201 This is Maryland MTA commuter bus route 201. It connects the Baltimore Greyhound station, BWI Airport, the BWI Rail station and Gaithersburg, a Maryland suburb northwest of Washington. Seems like a great route, as it allows one...

https://www.newsweek.com/underwater-rail-tunnel-connect-europe-africa-1904671 They're talking about having it done by 2030 to help deal with traffic caused by the World Cup in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. Not sure how long this idea has been floating around, but it seems to me that the...

Most coach passengers on US domestic flights don't get meals included in the fare, and there are limited options for sale. But they still serve food on intercontinental flights. Here's an example from my 2017 trip to China on United Airlines: This was lunch/dinner out of Dulles. I think...

https://www.bayjournal.com/news/pollution/not-so-fast-maryland-high-speed-train-project-hits-skids/article_332ae686-fdbf-11ee-ae7a-8bb4a47e0084.html Not only has FRA stopped doing studies on this boondoggle, the company (Northeast Maglev) itself pulled their application for a water quality...

I think the RIP for commuter travel as a result of the pandemic is a bit premature. My train to Washington lefy at about 0850, which meant I had to drive in the height of the rush hour. A year or two ago, there was no rush hour. Today, it took me a half hour for a drive that usually takes 15...

So I'm driving to the station this morning, and I get a text from Amtrak advising me of reduced speeds on my 9 AM trip Baltimore to DC due to heat restrictions. I looked at the outside temperature display on my dashboard, and the temperature as 67 F! A little cool for heat restrictions, I would...

Here's a gem from 2008 form the Amtrak OIG site: https://amtrakoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/E-08-02-042208.PDF Overall Conclusions After examining a representative sample of European Passenger Train Operations over a multi-year period, we found that: a) When all revenues and...

My daughter and I are up in Boston, taking care of some business. We rode up on a Northeast Regional which was fine, except that it was slow compared to the Acela. When we got to South Station, we went down to the T and bought aa few subway rides for each of us. The plan was to ride to Park...

So I was channel surfing late last night and I see that my cable provider offers NHK World, the international channel of Japan's public broadcaster. Well, what do you know, they have a program about trains! This was the one I saw: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2049139/...

Got to take a sneak peak at the auto show this evening as part of an SAE conference. The new cars were meh, though I'm glad to see that Toyota is bow making the Corolla Cross in a hybrid, even if it is 2 years late for me. But the antiques are always fun to look at. 1954 Corvette 1962...

Last week attended the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington. This is a group organized by the National Academies or Science, Engineering and Medicine to provide coordinate research on transportation matters and runs advisory committees to provide expert input to...