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Don't you mean NS?

Maybe they should resurrect the combine for trains like the Palmetto and the Carolinian as well as other corridor service ones.

Lest we forget, Myrtle Beach and the surrounding Grand Strand area has rapidly grown over the last few years with more year round residents, mostly retirees. Should passenger rail service be reinstated to Wilmington, it might help boost ridership and revenues to start thruway bus service from Myrtle...

Since NS leases the NCRR trackage, and North Carolina owns NCRR, I wonder why it is that NCDOT supports passenger rail and not NCRR.

For a dose of realism, the focus should be on Amtrak owned or controlled infrastructure, which means the NEC and the Wolverine route through Michigan. These two alone could easily soak up 50 billion to address the backlog of maintenance needs. Beyond this, you would have to include the host railroad...

This reminds me of the last time nationalization of the rail network was brought up was when Penn Central went belly up in 1970. Prior to that the AAR put out a white paper called ASTRO for America's sound transportation review organization. It said that to merely to acquire the fixed assets of the ...

At the risk of sounding redundant, I noted previously where two CSX employees were killed when an Amtrak regional going north from union station struck them while their train was setting out a car that triggered a defect detector. At that point the two lines are in close proximity, hence one good re...

Unless you build tracks 35 ft. from the centerline of the existing RF&P sub, CSX will balk at electrification for anything over 90 MPH.

For those pushing electrification of Virginia's part of the RF&P sub, I don't think CSX would approve of such a move, especially if you are talking about Acela type trains zipping along at 100 plus. A few years ago, two CSX employees were killed by a passing Amtrak passenger train while they wer...

Reading about the deal that VA made with CSX, the segment of the old C&O from Richmond to Doswell is kept by CSX. If the freights that do not have to pick up or set out at Acca could be re-routed over this line then connect at AM junction to the Bellwood sub on to the A line at Centralia. If nee...

Disregard the above post as I meant to post on another site. My bad.

One simple way one could deal with LD is any route that covers 50% of expenses from the farebox would be spared. The others would be dropped or cut back to corridor service.

According to the DC2RVA plans, they plan to use the existing route through Fredericksburg and rebuild the viaduct through that city with a third main line. I don't see this as a high speed line. It doesn't need to be. It just has to provide reliable and timely service.

At one time, Virginia once owned a part of the old RF&P. Maybe they should have purchased the rest of it and leased it to CSX when they had the chance.

When talking about Florida, you might want to include Virgin/Brightline in the regional mix.