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Let's just say I expect the best FY for the keystones, ever. (the saturday ones keep flickering between a few seats left and sold out)

I would take a Keystone to Lancaster or somewhere out there and get a rental out that way (or even Exton, for that matter). You are going to save a pile of money because rentals are cheaper out here, and when you go to return it, you won't fight the city insanity on the 25th (if that is your...

From what I understand, most of the shutdowns are based on planning from DHS. But seriously, I'm thinking of taking a few days of vacation (and I live near PAO, a good 40 minutes from the city itself). Most buisnesses that I know have been running crisis planning meetings for several months...

The Keystone will have a huge month in Sept, from the Pope apocalypse. All trains are reserved seating only for that week (9/21-9/27), with some trains on all of those days running above baseline fares (unreserved fares) on the PA side. The $800,000 shortage from budget for May is only 5,000...

PAO-PHL is $6.50 outside of peak, $8 on peak (fri&sun). I take that probably 2x a week. :) On double points days, its nice to take the train into the city, walk across the bridge, take a stroll on the riverpath, and take one of the later trains back.

I have lunch next week with my SEPTA friend, I'll see what other grapevine I might be able to share about the shared keystone stations then. I know they have put up signage at the Exton station showing the new designs and what to expect during construction. However, nothing at Paoli (and boy...

Bridgewater has pretty good food, and decent selection of craft beer (get some Yards and enjoy some made in Philly beer in Philly). If the weather is decent, and they are open, JG Domestic is a couple of blocks away, make sure to get the duck fat french fries if you visit!

There are already no reasonable hotels within 50 miles of Philly the week after the 19th (the catholic conference that the pope is coming for starts the monday afterward, so you are generally looking at $450+ a night if you can find one). If you want to make a trip of the exhibit train, stay...

I would argue that the focus is not only on the NEC, but working on extending it via the more successful (measured by farebox recovery) state supported routes, like the Empire, Virginia Services, and Keystones. These improvements do help the perception of LD train travel, just like improvements...

I actually use Amtrak all the time in SEPTA territory. EXT-PHL is about the same price ($6.50 each way) as SEPTA, way faster, and much nicer. Where are you going in septaland that its $40 on amtrak?

I would guess NJT, not SEPTA. SEPTA had a ridership increase over last year in Feb per their monthly report. We didn't get squat for snow in Feb, and the SLVs don't seem to collapse into a pile of junk at cold weather, unlike some of the old stuff. There may also have been bleedover from NER...

Don't remember any major hullabaloo about her, so probably not horribly corrupt. SEPTA is one of the biggest jokes in public transit, but I'm pretty sure they are their own special snowflake,and city transit division at least tries to keep it limited to one layer of graffiti at a time.

SEPTA was angling for straight up money out of Rotem, I think. I don't remember how it got resolved (either money, free refurb work, or if its still in the courts). I know it wasn't extra cars.

Because the state doesn't want to own equipment, I think. In addition, I can understand not highlighting an option that may never be allowed without waivers (and NS may just say flat-out no to that equipment).

I would guess seat miles. Doing either pax-miles or train miles would shift more of the overhead off the NEC. Ridership would swing more toward the state corridors, pax-miles would be more LD. Train miles would also be a shift, evenly balanced between state & LD, but much less on the NEC. (I...

I've seen it happen sometimes, but no more frequently than other commuter service.

I would also guess that you see more transition at the higher price buckets. $80 round-trip for me to travel to DC on a train, going to take the train. Some of those high fare buckets, I'm driving. I am at a loss to explain where the Pennsylvanian keeps finding more people to take the train...

The local state senator has said that there are currently 3 waves of construction planned for PHL-PGH. The first is rebuilding stations from PHL-HAR as all high level platforms, the second is making at least stretches of PHL-HAR 125mph (He said the whole thing, but I don't think we are spending...

shhh. If you don't mention it, we won't notice anything! I predict the number of people making french toast will hit record highs! (I mean, why else do you need bread, milk & eggs at the grocery store?)

Both the Keystones & the Pennsylvanian have outpaced total ticket revenue growth on the NEC from FY10-14 (36% on the Keystones, 35% on the Pennsylvanian, 33% Acela, 31% NER). In addition, they have better OTP than the vast majority of trains. If they could somehow get from CHI-PGH vaguely on...