It'll probably be covered on C-SPAN at the very least. Kerry will also be there and will give a short speech. If he throws a joke in about the Lake Shore, Starlight, Cardinal, foamers, "reliably unreliable" or AmShacks, you'll have me to thank/blame.
We knew this already, where "we" is "people who follow Amtrak very closely". The general public probably hasn't paid much attention to the details of exactly what's in the stimulus bill, and most of the folks who did know passenger rail was getting stimulus money were probably only aware of the "high-speed" money, and not specifically aware of the 1.3 billion allocated for Amtrak. I think it's great that the stimulus Amtrak funding is getting positive publicity on major cable news coverage!
I suspect a very large proportion of the 68 cars are Amfleet and hence will likely be rehabed in Bear DE. Beech Grove will probably be working on some number of bi-level Superliners and some Amfleet IIs to offload Bear of those. Just a guess.
1.3 billion is not enough to build or improve any meaningful amount of track for intercity service, even if it's concentrated on a single project.
I assume you're being sarcastic. Sarcasm and politics run on separate tracks and please don't ask me wye.
By switching system are you referring to signal systems?
