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According to KYW, SEPTA counted about 55,000 boardings on Sunday at PAT&Tison Avenue Station: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/09/29/septa-pleased-with-handling-crowds-during-papal-weekend/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; “We had approximately 55-thousand people rid...

Attendance at the Papal Mass on Sunday was estimated at 850,000. Transportation in and out worked well, the real hangup was getting people through security screening checkpoints and onto the Parkway. There is at least one photo floating around of a leased MARC set sitting in 30th Street Station, but...

I had been intending to stay in town this weekend, but family obligations called me away at the last minute. Anecdotally, coming back from the airport via the 37-BSL route, there were still crowds of people headed south on Broad Street towards the stadiums, whether on foot, by packed subway trains, ...

The locals that run to Delaware still seem to get pretty good ridership. There are a lot of riders going from Delco to Wilmington and back, and I don't see how you get enough riders from an off-peak express to balance losing those riders with a forced transfer. (Also, those riders are free money, si...

The easiest way to get more capacity on the New Haven Line is by having timed meets at local overtake stations, where a local train takes a passing siding to platform while the faster service behind it goes through on the main track. Observe this example at Shin-Fuji station on the Tokaido Shinkanse...

I can accept those answers. Bolton Notch is right near where any solution for going around or through Manchester is going to drop the MAS, so the penalty for a curve there is minimal. The speed restrictions suggested still make me flinch, though. You can straighten out the curve on the Bolton side b...

Two immediate thoughts: 1) If you're really doing this right, it's worth the extra $$$ to do some earthmoving/tunneling at or near Bolton Notch to keep the line straight and the speed up. Still cheaper than the major river crossings on the Shore Line. 2) Most of the planning documents are at least i...

First, I fully endorse the thinking laid out by F-Line above. Second, what kinds of incremental segment-based improvements are possible? Say we built a new NHV-BOS alignment, by electrifying the Springfield Line, making incremental upgrades to the Providence Line to bring MAS up to 186 mph or higher...

The LIRR ROW width is a serious problem. Expanding the Main Line to three tracks is an operation in political teeth-pulling, and that's for LI-focused service. A NY-Boston second spine would almost certainly have to tunnel underneath the LIRR to use its ROW, at which point there's no reason not to d...

As it stands, the last four weekday departures from BOS are as follows: Train BOS NYP PHL 2175 17:20 20:50 22:12 177 17:35 21:50 23:28 179 18:45 22:50 67 21:30 2:15 4:35 As the most visible train-nerd in my circle of friends, I do hear plenty of complaints that there isn't a reasonable option for ge...

With regards to converting between Gate and Portal to 12.5kV/60hz, do the electrics NJT uses at the moment have the ability to run off of that as-is right now? The NJT locomotives can run on it, but their current EMUs can't be. Nudge the transition farther west of Kearny -- say, to DOCK -- and you ...

How many cars are they going to stuff into Pennbrook while Lansdale sits empty? I will give you the point about Lansdale and parking. It is a valid point that I am also curious about. However, in terms of everywhere else, why open train stations that are not accessible to hotels and highways? Doing...

So if Virginia announces its intention to get the NEC-Virginia stuff extended as far as Bristol (we have to get to ROA and the New River Valley first), the city leaders of Knoxville are going to have to make getting the train to their town a priority. The beauty is that Virginia trains haven't need...

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MARC and NJT crews qualified into Philly would probably be qualified to 30th Street Lower, which should be fine as a terminal location for them. For that matter, how much of a bottleneck will the engineers really be? Can it be gotten around on those (few) lines with more than one station open, by pl...