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Yeah. If the Canadian "has the road" it starts getting *wild*.

More like "What the ICC would have let them charge". Today you'd be able to charge a fortune. Then? Getting a "proper" premium would have been a bar brawl to push the extra fare charge higher.

Notably, all of the stations lack daily service: Browning is seasonal and I think all the others are on either the Cardinal or the Sunset. Edit: Rensselaer is also an interesting case - it's on the former Hoosier State side of the route, and before that train was cut ridership there seems to...

They might want/need to redo the measurements. Americans in 1950 had...different...dimensions.

I mean, if Amtrak really wants to control the platforms, then maybe they should start checking the couch cushions?

I hate to be overly critical, but I'm curious as to whether the 90 MPH sections are then bumped to 110 MPH in the later phase, and if so why they don't just try to pull the band-aid off in terms of alignment and so on? Also, I tried to click the link on the Rio Grande Plan and the page requires...

What about if you purchase (say) dinner and then the train runs too late for you to get dinner?

Can you tell when her train stops at the station with a timetable? I think you're gonna need the tracking tool for that use case.

So, I'd point out that the UK rail companies can all kick out timetables. Some of those are massive. For that matter, so can MARC, the LIRR, and so on. One wrinkle with Amtrak's system: You can search by "route", but (for example) the Virginia Regionals aren't shown separately, and when...

Also, with PDF timetables, what does it "cost" Amtrak? A day or two of time from a staff member a few times per year? I hate to say it, but they could probably buy a computer program to automate the generation process for a full-timetable PDF...

So, the August data is out. The short version is that Brightline posted its weakest ridership since September of last year. From what I can tell, August tends to be a weak period - Brightline's tendency for weakness in the late summer/early fall but strength from Nov/Dec-March actually...

The "printed timetables" stuff is more about Amtrak making it quite hard to figure out anything about what your train has or does. Like, if I'm on an eight hour trip, there's a good chance that I might like a hot meal not from a microwave...

At a minimum it would have made the underlying litigation fraught (and potentially opened up bad faith counter-claims if the same folks challenged under different grounds). No, I haven't wanted to see some NIMBY coming up with spurious grounds to challenge things get run into the ground, why do...

I mean, since Amtrak mostly locked coach pax out of the diner, the difference isn't huge. More legroom on the EB seems to be the big one?

I suspect this will eventually wander into a DOT issue. Eventually there's going to be a nasty meltdown with lots of phones dying or a major cell service failure...

This had been my understanding as well - it's probably the third tranche, but could plausibly be the second one instead.

That depends on who is booking it out. If FLL-BTR is getting booked out with folks traveling "locally", then there might not be much you can do to shake more revenue out of folks traveling further. Probably just augmenting the cart rather than replacing it. Makes it quicker when the cart comes by.

So, Brightline looks like they've decided to approach the revenue issue by reducing the credits (not even refunds) given within 48 hours of departure for "full fare" customers to 50%. Congrats, Brightline - now AA and DL have a distinct edge on you with respect to refund policy. [I'm also not...

I mean, per-passenger ticket revenue has gotten "stuck" as well, at 25% below officially projected levels. Some massaging of the yield management system might help, as might a repeat of a version of the "Smart+" offering.

Not with the current order(s) it won't. I got into hypothetical capacity stuff above. In several other posts I've gone into great detail about questions of where Brightline's "pinch point" (where demand peaks out) is and other details. But in practical terms, it looks like based on current...