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Mailliw reacted to Septa9739's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with
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I think the problem is the size of our market. As a nation we don’t buy enough passenger stock to keep production lines open, so every... -
Mailliw reacted to lordsigma's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with Like.
Definitely agree that any information they've gotten from carmakers is likely proprietary at this point and Amtrak is not at liberty to...
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Mailliw reacted to Septa9739's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with Like.
I think there’s plenty of alarmist nonsense in that article. First, the schematics were proof of concept for ADA compliance. I don’t...
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Mailliw reacted to TC_NYC's post in the thread Airo - Amfleet I replacement Siemens Inter City Trainsets (ICT) with Like.
Finally improving the Business Class experience. Glad they're improving them compared to the Amfleets.
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Mailliw reacted to AmtrakMaineiac's post in the thread Boston - Montreal new rail alignment with Like.
Going by the current Lake Shore Limited schedule, to arrive at Albany by say 10:30 AM you would have to leave Boston around 5 to 5:30...
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Mailliw reacted to AmtrakMaineiac's post in the thread Boston - Montreal new rail alignment with Like.
Agreed, that is the most practical scenario rather than battling the NIMBYs and politically powerful rail to trail folks to put back...
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The most likely rail improvement that's coming anytime soon in Massachusetts that could bridge this gap is expanded service between...
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The new sets are similar to the current Railjets* (same base of Viaggio cars, their locomotive is a Vectron, not a Taurus), so they : -...
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Wouldn’t that be nice if Amtrak did that for all business class cars-seems you only see that on state supported trains. You’d think with...
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Does anyone know if business class on the Downeaster has assigned seating or is it still a free for all? A Free For All, hardly. You...
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I think because the train is contracted by NNEPRA and that was part of the terms of the contract. It probably saved them some money as I...
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I still don't know how they managed to get the OBS union to agree to that. The train and engine employees are Amtrak, the train itself...
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Mailliw reacted to lordsigma's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with Like.
I wouldn’t assume anything about seats from the diagrams reversing or not. They are about A.D.A. And nothing else - period. I also would...
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Mailliw reacted to Gemuser's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with Like.
As an example of how other do it the NSWGR [whatever the latest name is] run their Sydney - Canberra trains with 3 car DMUs with just...
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Mailliw reacted to jiml's post in the thread Long Distance (LD) fleet replacement discussion (2022-23) with Like.
I think non-reversible seats on new equipment is simply cost saving. Cheaper to install and no staff required to turn them at endpoints...