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The Phoenix Union Station is currently owned as a storage for a certain company; However, they're looking into selling it. It could get re-acquired by Amtrak again with it being sold again. Considering the city is starting to densify and commuter rail is in the making, new platforms would have...

My proposal would be a split similar to the Silver Services, where Sunset Limited stays on its usual route but a "Sunrise Limited" of sorts would head up to Phoenix. And the revival of the abandoned corridor that traveled westward after Coolidge and followed AZ-87. That could be used to separate...

Good transit networks don't require going to the center to head out, that's simply inefficient and wastes time if that was the case. It's why ring, loop, and outer lines exist. A lot of networks and upcoming ones have outer lines making it easy to transfer without having to "go backward before...

As someone studying urban planning, you do need to keep in mind the travel radius. The train only beats the plane in trips 6 hours or less which is why cities close together such as in the NEC let trains compete and win over the plane. Amtrak connections to an airport would not make that much...

A country such as India already has high catenaries for freight and tall passenger cars and can get them at low prices. With that in mind, getting high catenaries should not be that much of an issue in the east. In the west, I can see the concerns as to why but besides tunneling high catenaries...

The Surfliner being straightened is great for increased speeds; But apparently, I've heard recently that Amtrak is not considering the electrification, it's just the wants of some commuters the Surfliner serves. So let's say Amtrak goes along with it, this is where I have some thoughts. The...

I would use the VR Lapland cars from Finland. The cars are bilevel and are designed to run on OHE (overhead electric) routes too so it fits in tunnels fairly easily. They're similar in height to the Superliner cars so transitions to engines won't look awkward. In fact these actually will match...

Yes, in fact, it's the reason Interstate 11 is being built as it will connect Interstates 80, 82, 82, and 90 all to Las Vegas and Phoenix. Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Reno is the southern half, the northern half will use US-395, I-82, and US-97. I-11 is also being built to decrease traffic on I-5...

Mind my horrible drawing skills. But due to a recent trend in overnight sleepers, I created this design for the Northeast Regional's overnight service in which I used the original name of the service, the "Night Owl." The Night Owl II features special sleepers inspired by and based on Japanese...

Simple name, it's a word I made up when I was 4 years old and has stuck with me ever since.