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Re: Big Government at its worst: micromanaging display scree

 by CComMack ¦  Sun Jan 13, 2019 3:21 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Big Government at its worst: micromanaging display screens ¦  Replies: 19 ¦  Views: 4968

Congress is not managing this, a Congressman is making a point about it.I presume it is in his area, so he is representing his constituency, rightly or wrongly. Philadelphia is split between a touch more than 2 Congressional districts, whose boundaries have just changed because the previous map was...

Re: Overnight Coach Configuration Ideas

 by CComMack ¦  Fri Aug 31, 2018 3:27 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Overnight Coach Configuration Ideas ¦  Replies: 206 ¦  Views: 45234

Why keep dreaming up airline type lay flat, when the tried and true 24/8 slumbercoach plan with 40 berths still outdoes all dreamups and each compartment is totally private? Because a Slumbercoach has to be built as a Slumbercoach, resulting in a mechanical unicorn fleet, while the Thompson Aero Va...

Re: Amtrak Shutting Down Several Route Sections 12/31/2018

 by CComMack ¦  Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:38 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Shutting Down Several Route Sections 12/31/2018 ¦  Replies: 76 ¦  Views: 17310

This. 110% this. PTC is Positively Total Crap. Pretty much every industrialized country out there has some form of train protection, and has for decades. Mr. Nas, I have a lot of respect for your views, so please don't take this personally, but "every other nation" argument doesn't hold m...

Re: SEPTA Impacts If Philly was selected by Amazon for HQ2?

 by CComMack ¦  Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:07 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA Impacts If Philly was selected by Amazon for HQ2? ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 11769

A few thoughts. Also keep in mind that it is not 50k jobs overnight. It's over the course of 10-15 years. 1.) If the NY is selected, the BSL extension will be needed immediately. The BSL Pattison terminus and NY Shuttle are convenient but the regular traffic on 95 between the airport and BF bridge ...

Re: SEPTA plans feasibility study on West Chester

 by CComMack ¦  Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:30 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA plans feasibility study on West Chester ¦  Replies: 68 ¦  Views: 28416

If PA had a driven, focused Governor (read: Cuomo), quite some of these proposals mentioned could have been fulfilled or underway by now. Cuomo? Let that cup pass from us. His main talent is putting out extensive press releases in which other people's work is credited to him. New York MTA is not in...

Re: Empire Service Electrification? Penn Station NYP - Alban

 by CComMack ¦  Thu Jan 19, 2017 5:26 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Empire Service Electrification? Penn Station NYP - Albany ¦  Replies: 131 ¦  Views: 31290

To add to F-Line's excellent summation above, and to tie in another subthread: European railroads, including Network Rail, electrify at a traffic density only slightly higher than today's Poughkeepsie-Albany, and definitely at a lower threshold than today's Croton-Poughkeepsie. If there's any plan i...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Sun Jan 15, 2017 4:01 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179415

The Cardinal goes to NYP because that is where the single level long distance equipment is based. Fallacy. The Cardinal did quite well, mechanically , as a CHI-WAS Superliner train, drawing on the Superliner base in the Greater Washington area (split between WAS for the Capitol Limited and Lorton f...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:04 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179415

The Cardinal goes to NYP because that is where the single level long distance equipment is based. Fallacy. The Cardinal did quite well, mechanically , as a CHI-WAS Superliner train, drawing on the Superliner base in the Greater Washington area (split between WAS for the Capitol Limited and Lorton f...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:12 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179415

These numbers look about right to me. I don't know that there's a lot of slack capacity on the LSL and CL to pick up displaced NEC-CHI passengers, or at least there won't be until the V-IIs are accepted and the V-I overhauls are done. Actually, it occurs to me that if the new OXF station gets servic...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:59 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179415

A lot of the discussion around the timing of the Cardinal has to do with the trade-off between being able to make connections in Chicago to/from the western trains, and the ability to serve Cincinnati at a reasonable hour. Question for those in a position to know: how much of the Cardinal 's riders...

Re: Sleeper expansion

 by CComMack ¦  Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:50 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Sleeper expansion ¦  Replies: 58 ¦  Views: 12790

Mr. Nas, on the Continent, why OBB is promoting Sleeper services when every other European system is dropping them escapes me. I somehow think that the Sleeper trains I remember from 1960 (my first trip over) where there were cars stretching out of sight in the UK (and a steam engine up front), wil...

Re: Cardinal discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:13 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Cardinal discussion ¦  Replies: 928 ¦  Views: 179415

A lot of the discussion around the timing of the Cardinal has to do with the trade-off between being able to make connections in Chicago to/from the western trains, and the ability to serve Cincinnati at a reasonable hour. Question for those in a position to know: how much of the Cardinal 's ridersh...

Re: Amtrak Auto Train Discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:17 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Auto Train Discussion ¦  Replies: 1744 ¦  Views: 275929

That's not quite how the math works. Assume for the moment that the Early Auto Train runs exactly two hours ahead of the present schedule, departing 14:00 and arriving 07:00 the next day. Back at the first terminal, the Late Auto Train can get in no later than 14:00, but let's give the terminal forc...

Re: Amtrak Auto Train Discussion

 by CComMack ¦  Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:11 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Auto Train Discussion ¦  Replies: 1744 ¦  Views: 275929

One negative of the present AT is that Amtrak keeps chipping away at the closing hour. It was 4P for the private AT (been there done that), with Amtrak, it was first 330, then that became 3. Now it's 230, and with such, a same day drive from the NY area becomes harder to imagine. On this point &quo...

Re: Amfleet Replacement Discussion.

 by CComMack ¦  Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:49 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amfleet Replacement Discussion. ¦  Replies: 281 ¦  Views: 81820

As a brief aside, I think there is enough passenger travel demand to justify an Amfleet-replacement order of 1000 coaches, minimum. Amtrak conventional trains in the Northeast are *short*, and while the Avelias will soak up some of the latent demand, there is really no reason not to be plotting 12-...

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