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This poster has a real concern about P-40 and P-42 retirements. It is the unbelievable number of grade crossing accidents. For me maybe Amtrak should use the GEs to be a sacrifice to the many tractor trailers that just love to get in front of any Amtrak train. So how to mitigate this problem. ? Just...

MARC is rehabbing their 6 HHP-8s and would rather buy more diesels to replace them. They replaced their AEM-7s with Siemens Chargers. Yes but and a very big but. Use of diesels on the NEC will require two diesels to maintain MARC speeds of up to 125 MPH. MARC is the fastest commuter rail in the USA...

I take Umbrage on the statement Anderson has improved on time service. He has had absolutely no influence on NS to improve its OTP. The Crescent is actually getting worse south of CLT.

Since both types need to go to Hialeah take Meteor and Star with each type assigned to one or the other.

Engineer and conductor cost would probably be much higher. first training on use of HEP .Second work rules. third much shorter runs for crews. 2 persons in loco per work rules. fifth crews bidding in and out would make for a much higher turn over of operating crews. Seniority rears its ugly head. Pe...

There is no way to know future demand for the end of -1 service and -2 services in full swing. That said the provision for Amtrak to get more train cars for the -2s hopefully will be filled for some train sets ? Might even get 2 - 4 more power cars ? There is no possible way to anticipate what bugs ...

The Crescent is just going down the tubes. Is your #20 times for WASH or NYP ? When I compared 20 it usually made up some time WASH - NYP/ Also 20 originated at ATL 9 or 12 times.

The problem IMO is that almost all NJT and some Amtrak trains reverse direction at NYP. There just is not enough tracks at NYP for those two to stack up more before you have to reverse the one bore. Now if there was space at Sunnyside so more trains could go there maybe ? That is of course the probl...

The class 1's are part of the problem with that PSR sickness spreading thru them Amtrak's own 12/19 Host Railroad Report Card looking back over 2 years prior does not bear this out. It shows solid improvement at PSR railroads CSX, NS and CN, and, no deterioration at any post-PSR-implementation Clas...

Came across this link about modern tunnel safe construction. It is over 45 minutes long so take the time to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cp1Rh-FNOc

At first I could not understand the 75% figure. However it appears that there is not enough platform track capacity at NYP to allow for say a full 30 minutes of say 15 trains inbound with 15 trains waiting at NYP to go outbound for 30 minutes. Anyone dispute that ?

Spare equipment probably 3 years in future depending on how many Amfleets and Horizons are still operational at that time. That wag based on present deliveries and commitments for both present service and proposed future service listed on Amtrak's publicized plans.

Corona virus might change all that ?

If the equipment shown can do all the required that will be great. However it is amazing the new ways of inspecting rails that keep coming up. It might take some detection equipment to be mounted on a regional if max allowed speed is somewhat limited ? Thinking of x ray and ultrasound ? One car equi...

The south of the lake track proposal is very important to get on time performance. However what about passing sidings ? Either use one NS track as a passing siding with the obvious potential for more delays or the additional cost of several 10k passing sidings every 10 miles or so. ?