Recent content by bonzoesc

My train this morning has dots 😭 There are probably different levels of work that gets done; daily, weekly, monthly, annually, that sort of thing. Any transit agency is going to have people for dailies (check for safe operation) and weeklies (fluids), but monthly checks may be cheaper to...

My belief is that it's like lower-stakes aviation maintenance; a good shop is going to have manuals, equipment, and more concern for getting it right than fast, but without the need for "Airframe & Powerplant" certifications or a fear that the vehicle will fall out of the sky in whole or parts.

Does the tunnel under DC have the clearance for Superliners?

There's also a gift link in the thread about the article from a few weeks back https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/is-amtrak-greener-than-flying.87175/

Would it help to keep the walk shorter when arriving at terminal stations like Miami, where the buffers are right next to the station house? That said, I think my last southbound Silver trip had the sleepers aft of the rest of the passenger cars.

Got it resolved as of last night, almost exactly four wall clock days or two business days.

Wikipedia lists a Superliner coach as 75 tons and seating 78, and a sleeper as 80 tons sleeping 44. If everyone overpacks way worse than I do for a total weight of 400lb/pax, that’s about 16 tons of payload for a coach and 9 tons on a sleeper. More mass is gonna need more power to get going...

I submitted the ticket online right before posting that because as a millennial I would rather lose blood than use the phone.

I love this podcast, really hoping I can make it to a live show some time. Towards the end of the episode about battery-electric trains, Rocz really goes into the physics advantage that overhead electrification offers: you don't have to bring all your stored energy with you! This is where the...

Just put myself in a situation where I want this (booked a premium round trip for May, received Uber vouchers, realized I picked May instead of April, and now I want to see if I can get them reissued) so let's see how long it takes and if I get what I want.

I assume they overbuilt it for a number of intersecting reasons, low interest rates, extremely expensive and well placed real estate that would benefit from transit capacity, and expected leases on commercial space (some retail, many offices) that would make future upgrades disproportionately...

Yeah that's fair. I don't find the traffic into MCO from the east to be bad at all, even compared to Orlando in general, but I have different standards for crazy traffic after fifteen years in Miami.

Yeah, someone I know is taking Brightline from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando with two kids and all their accoutrements this week and I haven't figured out why; my speculation is they're being picked up by Brevard family at MCO and going somewhere past that. I do wonder how Cocoa to MCO catchment is...

I definitely could see a lot of value in those stations for airport connections out of Stuart, putting it in the catchment for MCO, and possibly PBI, FLL, and MIA depending on the quality of Brightline's last mile services in South Florida. It'd be nice to get from Stuart to Berlin with two...

Going by the other links, it looks like any Brightline Tampa service would run through the “Sunshine Corridor” regardless, but of course Brightline stations are way more expensive than SunRail’s.