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cirdan replied to the thread Airport Shuttles.I don't think the security side can be that daunting. There are after all already "sealed" trains such as the Eurostar in which customs... -
cirdan replied to the thread Gulf Coast Amtrak service agreement reached with freight railroads.Do you think the situation here is comparable to North Carolina? It seems to me the NC Amtrak services serve places like the research...
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cirdan reacted to zephyr17's post in the thread Gulf Coast Amtrak service agreement reached with freight railroads with Like.
For some silly reason, CSX wanted to press it as a test case on Amtrak's statutory access rights. It was a losing case for them, for...
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cirdan reacted to zephyr17's post in the thread Gulf Coast Amtrak service agreement reached with freight railroads with Like.
My own opinion is CSX blinked. They anticipated the STB was going to rule against them on access and didn't want that opinion on the...
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cirdan reacted to TrackWalker's post in the thread Gulf Coast Amtrak service agreement reached with freight railroads with Like.
I have no doubt additional/lengthened sidings will be built (at Amtrak's cost) in strategic locations to park passenger trains while...
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cirdan reacted to DSS&A's post in the thread Gulf Coast Amtrak service agreement reached with freight railroads with Like.
It has just been announced todaybghat an agreement has been reached by all parties that will allow Amtrak to run Gulf Coast passenger...
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cirdan reacted to MIrailfan's post in the thread Surfliner service suspended Oceanside-Irvine due to emergency track work with Like.
California has a budget surplus they should invest it in upgrades or a tunnel.
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cirdan reacted to Alice's post in the thread Surfliner service suspended Oceanside-Irvine due to emergency track work with Like.
I don't know about the timeline, but this got my attention: "The track moved as much as 28 inches between September 2021 and September...
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Trains' Newswire reported this week that NS has agreed to purchase for $1.6 billion the line they lease from the city of Cincinnati. It...
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cirdan reacted to AmtrakMaineiac's post in the thread Rail service Philadelphia to Reading PA with Like.
There was an interesting article on this topic in the latest issue of Passenger Train Journal by Richard Rudolph of the Rail Users...
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cirdan reacted to TheCrescent's post in the thread Why train tickets cost so much in America with Like.
One item to note is that Amtrak’s load factor (the number of seat-miles occupied by passengers, divided by the total number of...
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cirdan replied to the thread Why train tickets cost so much in America.Many European railroads run more or less the same consist all year round on night trains for example, but will still tack on extra cars...
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cirdan replied to the thread Why train tickets cost so much in America.thanks for the insight. However, rather than comparing prices dollar to dollar, I think it is more valuable to convert dollar prices...
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cirdan reacted to Willbridge's post in the thread Why train tickets cost so much in America with Like.
In 2010 I made two long rail trips. One was Denver <> Bellingham and the other was Moscow <> Tomsk. For a presentation to ColoRail...
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