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When I was in the workforce, I travelled from Kansas City to such exotic spots as Seattle, central Texas, or Watertown New York. If I could have travelled sleeper (the Federal Travel Regulation no longer authorizes it), I’d have spent 2 1/2 to 3 days in transit. Flying, I went from KCI to Cincinnati...
Almost 6 months on…
The watch this space website has no tag to investors, no tags for RFP to procure cars from existing private owners, in other words, not a damn thing.
Anyone care to bet this is the 2023-25 version of the “Marlboro Unlimited?”
Has Amtrak ever heard of this concept called “sections?” The passenger operator runs multiple Trainsets for a specific train and date, each one operating basically one block cycle behind its leader. UP, ATSG, NYC, PRR, NP, GN, CB&Q … they were all capable of, and DID it. Why can’t Amtrak? Oh, th...
Tad, I have to wonder what kind of prep GCRR did for that paint job?
- IAH - Houston? To be honest, if Houston is that spread out, it should have a subway or light rail system that connects all five "downtowns" with the airport(s) and big transit hubs. Amtrak and Texas Central High Speed would qualify as a big transit hub. But we don't have that there and ...
I don’t know what Amtrak did to the diagram pages, but if you don’t have a direct copy of the RFP, they’re worthless.
I spent eight years of my life commuting to Houston for certain tasks. The place is more spread out than LA.
THERE IS NO CONVENIENT SITE FOR ANY TRANSPORTATION MODE’S TERMINAL
Do not Most railroads now have a dash cam in the lead unit to show the crews view during operations?
Jeff,
Let’s be honest. A UP or ATSF 44 seat coach would almost count as First Class in Amcrap’s world.
From the SJ Mercury
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/ ... 0-million/
2 routes along I-90?
Where are the people to populate this train?
More than that, where is the excellent equipment used by NP, GN and CB&Q to run a train worth boarding, Vice the overage dirty things Amtrak uses today?
O’Keefe needs to ride the LDs, and not in a PV.
GBN, having heard from Cate Kratville-Wrinn that her Dad (William Kratville) and Arthur Dubin were part of the idea team for Railpax, someone forgot to tell them about the basic rule of bureaucracy…the first task of any newly created agency is to establish its permanence.
These are parlor car seats. A typical parlor car sat 30 people. The ratio of buffet parlors to parlors on many lines was 1 buffet parlor between each two standard parlors. Amcrap does not have a clue on the meaning of first or business class. They think the airlines “premium economy” is de luxe trav...
Moderators, please fold this into the construction thread after April 2.
From Trains
Link Here: Metra station at Homewood, Ill., set for 50-day closure (April 1 to May 20), NO ADA access until June 30