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One other historical oddity is that Hamilton Station might have been originally intended as an Amtrak stop, on the May 1998 system map before opening in February 1999 (originally scheduled for end of 1998). That map also shows Hoboken as an Amtrak station? I wonder if the plan was for Clockers to s...
One more casualty showing they're never coming back: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/signature-room-chicago-john-hancock-building-95th-floor-closing/3238322/ I've been there - well when it was The 95th atop the John Hancock; must say quite the view. This is off topic (wrong city) and I don't ...
The New York Stock Exchange, and all the Wall Street firms, observe four minutes of silence on 9/11-- at 08:46, 09:03, 09:58, 10:28-- the times when the planes hit the towers and then when the towers fell. Trading is halted: they sound the closing bell. It's considered bad form to even pick up the ...
Engineer Spike wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:14 pm Maybe METRA should get in on the CP's Hindenburg II hydrogen powered locomotive program. lolwe've somehow normalized the exploding dinosaur juice locomotive program for close to 100 years, best not throw stones when you live in glass houses
District-area residents usually prefer naming without the Congress-instituted "Reagan" naming. If you haven't traveled by air in decades, you don't need to know. The airport code is printed/displayed in large letters a number of times in the process of booking and using a ticket. This is a...
Moynihan is much friendlier to mobility issues than the old place. Enter at 31st and 8th and there's a long ramp down to the main hall, turn right into the main hall, and on your right (the east wall) will be the main waiting area, which has red caps towards the right (south) side of the waiting area.
Go ride trains anywhere else in the world. Will you find a conductor for every two cars checking tickets manually? No. Will you find turnstyles? Yes, at city centers. The idea that anything that reduces the number of union workers needed is an evil plot to cut the workforce, vs progress towards a be...
look at the bigger picture. the commuter railroads have been experiencing labor shortages causing train cancelations. manual ticket collection is a distant memory in most of our overseas comparables. it's idiotic that we can't run a good service because not enough crews are available when we could s...
you're not going to get anywhere in life with a persecution complex like that!
do you have an actual source for this or did you just make it up? from your post on other threads/forums on this site I don't think you have any credibility
They didn't get rid of them for random reasons. Cost effectiveness is a major , if not the top, consideration. Basically, they did get the most use out of them, and now retention is not good business. true. But then why didn't they rebuild to get a few more years out of them Emmett... 🤦 do you read...
This could be improved with the outside-the-box thinking of running every GCT train as an express and run a local from Spuyten Duyvil to Croton-Harmon timed to connect at Spuyten Duyvil. Then everyone would get as frequent service as possible. Of course they would never do that though
Emmett, this is the second thread (or maybe the second time this thread) where you've made multiple posts asking about specific details of the ALC and Airo deliveries to the Pennslyvanian. If anyone had any knowledge on this, you'd have seen it already, and asking every month won't change that.