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It's not quite what we had prior to 1985. Nobody headed west of Harrisburg is going to catch a train out of NY at 6am. They used to...

Would one of the frequencies connect with the Adirondack ?

Had David Gunn not foolishly gotten rid of the Three Rivers 18 years ago, this $200 million would not have been expended, which is...

Another thing about Philadelphia is that the lines running out of the two stub terminals were (and are still) run by the same entity...

The planners and subway fans in NYC love the idea of thru running of commuter trains. First, they do not understand commuter rail is not...

Through running for a commuter/regional rail system only makes sense if you can use it to eliminate multiple stub end terminals, provide...

Despite its flaws, Penn South is still better than running empty trains at enormous cost for no reason.

I think "X" alerts for Amtrak will eventually go the way of the public timetable, Amtrak being too cheap, lazy, and inept to maintain it...

I was in yet another "discussion" with a bunch of foamers on thru-running on a NYC Reddit group this morning. They can't grasp it is...

The minute someone insists there must be through running you know they are disconnected from the realities of the NYC Metropolitan Area...

In further news on the various proposals for a redesigned Penn Station, notorious crayonista Alon Levy (generally considered to be...

I have other adjectives to define Alon Levy, but I would be scolded severely to write them here. RethinkNYC has been been dismissed as...

A glimmer of hope in this article. We don't know what Amtrak, NY, and CN are discussing. You'd think this was a House intelligence...

I think the western ends of the platforms forms today's Lucien L'Allier station. If you go there now, they look pretty old. They...

There is no discussion in recent years about rerouting the train by NY or Amtrak because neither entity is interested solving the...