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Any reason why Murphy's getting involved personally?

Looks like the map presumes that there was a connection between the PRR and CNJ at midtown Elizabeth; there once was, but was long gone when the PRR was elevated. The Elizabethport and Perth Amboy is missing; that was the route those trains from Raritan to Bay Head used IIRC. Also, the PRR's waterfr...

JFTR, the state capital of Pennsylvania is Harrisburg, which no rail service to/from Reading in this proposal would serve (which seems barely Amtrak-related, given no connection between former RDG tracks and former PRR tracks to facilitate any operation between the two railroads into Philadelphia; a...

Amtrak has to think Penn, anyway, and has to at least think about long term. I noted the Southern Tier and onward west, but also, Eastern PA North South seems to be heating up. Philly to Allentown, Easton, Bethlehem areas, up to the Poconos and Scranton and beyond. Where did you hear about Philly t...

Repeated efforts to reach (Ray) Lang were unsuccessful. His slide presentation focused mostly on untapped, larger markets elsewhere, but the map brightened the hopes of local advocates. … May as well ignore that. Several decades away, since it is in the very preliminary proposal stage, Amtrak has n...

So, in the Keystone/Harrisburg topic, there's been talk about Pennsylvania buying out Amtrak and operating Keystones themselves. Their motivation ostensibly is, to paraphrase: “keep PA money in PA”, and not subsidize Amtrak, but rather, their own service. I posited that perhaps they should contract...

Wow; been following developments for quite a few decades and never heard of this proposal. Is it real rather than a railfan concoction (which the graphic bearing the NJT slogan that everyone hates seems to indicate)? If real, it sure got buried very, very deeply.

The real problem with the M&E is that an eastbound Amtrak would have to be scheduled out of Dover immediately ahead of a local to avoid catching up with the preceding local. If Amtrak is more than a few minutes late into Dover it's going to leave behind the local instead of ahead of it, making ...

What with BBD in the midst of being bought out by Alstom, it seems doubtful they're working on anything new for NJT at any rate of speed. And aren't the MLV EMUs NJT's idea anyhow?

https://www.essexhudsongreenway.org/ Residents of communities all along the property have been campaigning for a linear park that would serve as a “shared-use path” for people walking, hiking, riding a bicycle, running, or just relaxing. Groups and individuals including the Bloomfield Open Space Tru...

What you guys consider “going left” , most of the rest of the western world consider providing basic human rights and needs. Hence , if this discussion was going on in (E)urope you would add a zero or two to the $$$$. On the left side of the dot that is . Eh? Please explain just how the USA is bere...

If this is the future, it will push this centrist Democrat further to the left. If it takes a "Green New Deal" type of massive infrastructure investment to avoid the type of withering on the vine future you describe, then so be it. I'd hate to lose what precious little national passenger ...

railgeekteen wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:21 am It's kinda dumb that the San Joaquins can't reach LA, would really benefit CA's Amtrak network in many ways?

OK advocates around here, pile on. But this is where I foresee the Long Distance system a going... That seems to be the endgame of government control of passenger rail in the USA. Destroy the system and let some leftist president rebuild it in his own image. But with "regional" operators,...

Back it goes to MNRR; it's an MNRR service LOL. Sorry, Simon. I couldn't think of the yard's name, thanks. Long term, MNRR would do well to be rid of NJT. And Rockland and Orange may do well to be rid of MTA, but I doubt it. Negotiate overhead rights to Hoboken. Why not the cross-agency forum? Afte...