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The workers are towing the ship back to harbor tomorrow, Monday. Eventually it will go to Norfolk for repairs if or when seaworthy.

Most answers to these questions are in the article. Little reason for the pols to do anything quietly in this case. (Unless they're afraid of budget hawks, or rail advocate perfectionists 🚂. We need our customs facility.) Expanding on the article, the two elected officials mentioned are super...

That's a good point about the rapidly re-populating coast from GA to NC. (Rural depopulation was in the early 20th century.) Seems to be sparked by people moving there to get away from cities, if you, say, read the Miami reddit. In any case, the numbers show NC adding the third most people...

OK on the topic control, but LPG is a carbon compound.

Bring a hotdish.

You're right, I was relying on my memory. https://www.amtrak.com/reports-documents

NC needs a better Carolinian, not combining it with a potentially late Florida train. That's my squabble! It will be a while. NC has put increased Carolinian frequency in the (late) 2030's bucket, awaiting the NC/VA high(er) speed S-line, which will be after the VA/DC Long Bridge completion...

The trains Amtrak says will get Airo's: NER (NEC, Virginia and New Haven/Springfield), Empire (NY), Keystone, Downeaster, Cascades, Maple Leaf, Palmetto, Carolinian, Pennsylvanian, Vermonter, Ethan Allen and Adirondack. Amtrak divides itself into four parts: Acela, Autotrain, long distance, and...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/nyregion/red-hook-redevelopment-shipping.html The mayor, the governor and the NYC Economic Development Corporation are praising the plan as a step forward for the moribund Red Hook port in Brooklyn. NYCEDC will take it over. What, nobody likes the job the PA...

Is it grounded on the bow but floating on the stern?

The Upper Midwest to Florida is a great market for an autotrain, and I don't think the others compare. Snowbirds who spend half the year in the South, and vacationers spending a week at the theme parks. Kankakee to Sanford! But it would need the freight route that misses the mountains. Unlikely.

Dueling whistleblowers on the 787 gap issue, one says it's not that bad: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ex-boeing-engineer-sidelined-after-a-787-critique-defends-troubled-plane/ Having dueling whistleblowers is not ideal, nor is it great the Defense Department is heavily reliant on a mega...

Wanderu is pretty good. For Seattle - Spokane it shows Flix, Northwestern and Amtrak. It overstates frequency the way it does multiple stops within a city though.

The Baltimore Banner, where many of the Sun's journalists went, also has an article. The soft paywall gets you one article, use it wisely! The median incomes over the new tunnel vary in patchwork ways but trend upward as you go east towards Penn Station...

I don't get the part about tunnels 320 ft deep or pylons 150 ft high but I may be forgetting stuff from when I was reading about this project. The deepest station in North America is 260', that museum stop in Portland with the cool geological & historical timeline on the walls. And 150' is about...

This tunnel boring machine ran into a ten-foot anchor last year: https://www.cbbt.com/news/project-connect-spring-2024/ It took 10 months to fix the machine, which will delay the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel project about eight months. The pictures are worth a look if you are interested in...

Brightline makes rail more visible, and the days of safe, reliable highways in key parts of Florida are past. That might be a reason for people to think of Amtrak? Commuter rail and transit improvements also get local coverage, partly because they are starting at a fairly low level, outside of...

And... what sort of Congressional hearings and NTSB investigations will follow? Thanks to Amtrak, and transit, there are passenger travel alternatives. And the highways in NY and New England are often supplemented by safer parkways, restricted to passenger vehicles only, but of course the...

What's the deal with all that paperwork? I suspect every time some issue comes up they add another paperwork requirement. But from the stories here, it would be better to hold conductors accountable and hire more sub-conductors, if that's what they're called. Personnel is expensive, and business...

I can guarantee NC people want a NY train. I don't know if NC was early in the 750-mile game, but it purchased rolling stock, unlike VA, as far as I understand it. Outside of train business, Raleigh has vied to be and is part of the NEC. It invested in the Research Triangle orders of magnitude...