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With Mail and Express gone, would it make any sense to reroute the Three Rivers PGH-CHI via Cleveland and Toledo? Yes, this would mean taking away service to the cities on the current Three Rivers route, but the ridership on the Capitol/Lake Shore Limited route is far greater. Ideally this could be ...

Does ANYONE know what a stone column is anymore? Yes, but an office worker never saw daylight (or Fairmount Park) through one. If I'm ever in the Cira Centre, and get a hankering for stone columns, I can walk across the walkway over Arch St. to the architectural jewel that is 30th St Station. There...

I assume the original post was related to the extension of the Exchange Place platforms to 10 carlengths. I think PATH can probably fill as many rush hour cars as it can run, and extending Newark-WTC trains to 10 cars (from 8) would be a (relatively) cheap way of expanding capacity without running h...

Thanks, all, for the replies. I'm not well-versed in track conditions and capacities west of Harrisburg, so the technical discussion is most enlightening. OK, so this is infeasible with New York as the terminus. What <i>would</i> be a plausible average speed, given track conditions and freight railr...

While I can sympathize with those who feel crowded in their commutes on the new M-7s... For the love of God, people! You're complaining about 19.3" wide seats? I, and many other riders of SEPTA's RRD, would kill to have 19.3" wide seats. (Our current seats are FRA-minimum 18", and SEP...

Hi, I have a purely hypothetical service question. Suppose Amtrak* wanted to provide overnight service from Chicago to one of NYP, PHL, or WAS. Is it at all possible, even assuming no intermediate stops, to run a schedule that allows travelers to go to sleep as the train pulls out in the evening, an...

Who owns or has the rights to the PCC design? Is it in the public domain? Would new PCCs be legal to run in the US?

SEPTA has cancelled its contract to purchase 104 new commuter railcars from the Korean-based United Transit Systems consortium.

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