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The FRA will give $12.5 million to Wisconsin DOT for a 2nd Chicago-St. Paul round trip as part of its Restoration and Enhancement (R&E) Grants program. From the FRA's press release: Wisconsin Department of Transportation Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago Intercity Passenger Rail Service Project $12,...

Posted about this in the Tri-Rail forum; figured I'd also put it here. According to this Progressive Railroading article from late February, the FRA has deemed FECR/Brightline/Virgin at risk of not completing PTC installation by the end of 2020. According to the FRA, the following eight host railroa...

Any updates on "what's the holdup". The track is there; NE Quadrant SAL-FEC (Iris) has been done for some time. SW FEC Quadrant has "always been there". Miami Central signage "Tri Rail coming soon" remains in abundance. So "enquiring mind wants to know" asks;...

My take on all this meshugaas: 10. NY HSR: Just #U(KING DO IT ALREADY! -What were studies showing travel time would be along the line? Here's the full Draft Environment Impact Statement for Empire Corridor HSR. The FRA web site mentions a Final EIS coming in 2019.... Pick your poison: Short run-dow...

from a CDOT insider , the rumor about MBTA wanting cars back is false, the lease is good for close to 5 years and MBTA has not asked for cars back. When is the lease supposed to end? This article from a couple of years ago says the MBB lease was signed in Dec 2017, and could run for a max of six ye...

As discussed in the Waterbury Line thread, the Connecticut State Bond Commission approved the $300 million in bonds for new CDOT railcars today - except that 60 cars will be purchased, for Shore Line East and the Hartford Line only. State budget director Melissa McCaw said that the description that ...

Straight from the horse's mouth, here's the video link to today's State Bond Commission meeting where the $300 million was approved: http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=17312 The relevant portion is from 34:20 to 47:50. State budget director Melissa McCaw and CTDOT Commissioner Giulietti stated that ...

MNRR is a state created creature. Failure to get on board can be dealt with by legislative action if needed. MNRR services 87 million passengers yearly, Amtrak services 30-31 million passengers yearly "nationally". In New York, MNRR is the bigger dog - not Amtrak! FYI, just to put Amtrak ...

Tangent: ARC was a bad project but the one silver lining is that it would have at least directly connected to the 34 St-Herald Square subway station, making connectivity a little better. Meanwhile Penn South and Moynihan Hall increase the walk from the subways and the Cuomo admin. is pretending the ...

I'm pretty sure any tunnel connection to MNRR is almost impossible for either utility or engineering reasons. Thus, my foam about an elevated link LOL. The ARC Summary Report suggested it was physically feasible, but that it would require disrupting and moving around a track of the Lexington Av sub...

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. Yeah this is hardly HSR, at l...

Obviously this is purely hypothetical, but the Meadowlands Loop would allow Pascack Valley Line trains to serve the Meadowlands in both directions right? Then you would need fewer shuttle service to provide the same amount of service between Meadowlands and Secaucus, and could probably extend those ...

The MTA's newest capital program includes a proposal to re-electrify some or all of the currently un-electrified segments of track 1 (the northbound express track) between Hastings-on-Hudson and Croton-Harmon. https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-09/MTA%202020-2024%20Capital%20Program%20-%2...

This looks like the new Northeast Corridor schedule effective Sept. 23, 2019: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/timetables/Northeast-Schedule-W04-092319.pdf Aren't there supposed to be a couple of non-stop Acela trains between Washington, DC and Penn Statio...

Have you tried mentioning that to them? I bet two separate departments are involved... and not once did anyone think about this. I'll use a mild form of Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by unawareness. This is totally their MO. One hand has no freaking clue...