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In lieu of our usual Control Point (CP) Sundays edition this morning, we have an updated Transformative Rail Vision Map ready (google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…), including MTL-TOR HFR, Ethan Allen to BUR, Vermonter to MTL & a couple glaring gaps: Big Sky Explorer to Sandpoint & KNX-CHT.
So, my read here is more capacity at Springfield Union Station for East-West Rail to Boston (and possibly to Albany) is unquestionably good. But traffic to the North to northwestern Mass, Vermont & Quebec still requires reverse moves (easier with Airos).
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While this obligation of $550 million for the S Line project is positive, it is not any additional funding to the $1 billion grant announced by Sec. Pete in the waning days of the Biden Admin. It is only for the Raleigh-Wake Forest segment of the project.
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After much delay, FRA is finally releasing some intercity passenger rail grants under the Corridor ID program of several years of inaction. Inclusion of this Hiawatha extension to Madison is not surprising but certainly needed…
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Went into my wayback folders to dig out these photos from my 2003 visit to the Montreal Metro. It would be a little less than another decade until the Bombardier-Alstom MPM-10 ("Azur") fleet debuted on the system.
"In FY 2025, Windsor Locks Train Station served 35,576 riders. The new station features a relocated passenger rail and bus service from the south of the town’s downtown area to a central location near Main Street..."
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Happy 60th anniversary to the Montreal Metro! The system is Canada’s most extensive heavy rail network. It moves about 290 million annual riders, or 800,000 people daily. I rode it in 2003, but haven’t been able to get back since.🚇
Oct 14, 1966: Montreal's new Metro begins running on three lines, part of a flurry of municipal infrastructure improvements leading up to Expo 67. Critics of Toronto's "bathroom tile" station architecture were quick to point out the Metro's 26 individually-designed stations. 1/3
ALT A train enters Saint-Laurent station on the Montreal Metro, 1966. A set of rubber tires on which the trains run in their concrete guideways is evident underneath the frontmost door. Various passengers are seen waiting for the train in the other direction on the near-side platform. STM Archives photo.
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Could the long, drawn-out shunt/signal saga finally be reaching its end?
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I was in a city last night for a concert. Can you identify this rail line near the arena?
Or if you know this lyric, you can look up the band and see where they were playing last night:
“It’s time I got back, and I don’t even know how I got off the track”🛤️
Like rehabilitated, “dynamic” completion dates are a made-up word, a politician’s word.
It’s mealy-mouthed nothingness. If there are inescapable delays, tell us why. We have billions invested with contracted completion dates.
Get busy finishing or get busy dying.
What bothers me the most is the rolling over to crappy outcomes and all-or-nothing scenarios. We need our public officials to put up a fight to show us the agreements matter and we’re paying #^*^%! attention. And find a way to get the portion that’s safe to operate running ASAP.
Having one of those Class 1 freight is a real thing kind of mornings⚡️
(Image from video by Steam Giants on Facebook)
|The Long Bridge Corridor’s dedicated passenger tracks from Washington Union Station to Alexandria could be electrified had Virginia not bent the knee to CSX|
It’s discouraging that a project at this level of completion in some parts could be up to 2 years from completion in its entirety.
Elected officials should not accept amorphous, “dynamic” timetables, and press for some portion to be operating as soon as humanly possible.
Station signs help keep your journey safe and on track. Follow posted signs for platform directions, entrances and exits, emergency information, and designated boarding areas. Always stay behind the platform edge and follow staff instructions. #SeriousAboutSafety
ALT Empty light rail station with dual tracks under clear blue sky and warning signs about train stopping and looking both ways.
ALT Blue and yellow sign instructing passengers to have a ticket before boarding the train, mounted on a glass window with trees and buildings visible outside.
ALT Railroad crossing sign with '2 tracks' warning and electronic signal against a backdrop of trees and houses.
Green Line Extension fuels billions in development and frustration before trains begin running | @kare11 - kare11.com/article/news/loca…
"The Authority has now constructed 66 structures along the first 119 miles of construction in the Central Valley. The four completed structures are as follows: State Route 43 Curved Bridge, Cross Creek Viaduct, Tule River Viaduct, Avenue 136 Underpass"
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"CapMetro said the changes will go until January 9, 2027...The agency says it’s to be more consistent. So instead of trains coming every 25 to 60-plus minutes, trains will operate every 37 minutes."
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CDOT and RTD seem to have buried the lede in Friday’s announcement of $44 million in state funding to enhance transit services across the region:
🚨 The A Line will soon run every 15 minutes all day, every day, from 6am-12:30am 🚨
Hard to overstate how transformative this is.
Trip times for the 2nd Amtrak Pennsylvanian service released, begins on November 18th. Eastbound times are pretty similar to my schedule crayon I did a few months ago. Westbound times are further apart from my guess. Existing 42/43 schedules change too.🚆
Check out @Lucid_Stew's latest Stew's News in North American HSR for October, including CAHSR, Brightline, Brightline West, NEC & Acela, Chicago/Midwest, ALTO, Austin-San Antonio & CDMX-Quaretaro
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