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Is the old right-of-way still visible, with the two bridges? The two tracks weren't on the same level, were they?

"Is [100 mph] more common than I thought?"

Suspect not.

No grade crossings on the Babylon line, FWIW.

As I recall in the 1970s there were a couple of short-lived LA-LV trains. I'll check Frailey's book again.

Over in the NJT forum, in the Arrow III thread, it says "I got a cab ride last week with a friend's brother on a new set of LIRR M7's and the full-throttle acceleration was dramatic - you really had to hang on. We hit 115+ on the way to Babylon." Assuming the engineer is retiring tomorrow,...

I'd say 90+% of Caltrain's Mon-Fri consists are 5 cars, peak and off-peak. Never more than 6.

One difference from eastern roads: all cars are open.

If you go to their website and look at the pdf timetable it shows which trains don't allow RTXs (or whatever they call them now). Turns out trains leaving NY Penn between 4 PM and 7 PM don't allow them, but the one leaving at 7:01 PM does allow them. If you get the roundtrip and decide to return bef...

Any difference between "padding" and "allowance for delay"?

"The best time offered by the Pennsy's Broadway Limited was 15:30 on the eastbound. I don't know whether rival New York Central's 20th Century Limited matched this." It did. The Broadway went from 16 hours to 15-30 in 1954, and the 20th Century may have switched at the same time. Westbound...

He probably means the Santa Clara County transit system.