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I think the Norfolk/Newport News area might get oversaturated. Overall, I like the plan

AI narration is awful.

As someone who lives in San Diego, I found this quite an informative video! I look forward to seeing these projects completed. Thanks for the video!

It is a blessing that Kansas is considering an investment in rail service into Newton from Oklahoma City. However, expansion at that level will not serve many riders and not serve many new riders. Kansas should consider investment that will support a train service from Oklahoma City through Wichita into Kansas City MO. That approach will be more expensive but yield a great deal more ridership per dollar of investment. --- Only extending the train to Newton to replace the connector bus, does that justify hundreds of millions of dollars investment? Thanks for the video.

While Texas demands a daily service for the Sunset Limited, we also want to see the return of the former Burlington Texas Zephyr, running from Denver to Houston thru Colorado Springs, Amarillo, and Dallas-Fort Worth...Just this one long distance train will solve the lack of a daily Amtrak train from Houston to Dallas, but Pueblo and Colorado Springs to Denver... This one long distance train will provide the entire south with a more direct route to the Rockies Denver and Salt Lake City without having to divert to Washington DC or Chicago... The Texas Zephyr is a no brainer... Amtrak pull your head out of your ass...

First day of winter is here, and a Siemens Charger froze up in the snow again. Well, that fix didn't work, back to the drawing board!

I can’t believe they brag about spending a few billion dollars on rail they need to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars

I like the expansion plan explanation! Great job and great work! But don’t forget the FRA has other plans too!

With the new administration taking over more than half of these don't happen!

That's Wilmington, NORTH CAROLINA, to Raleigh - not Wilmington, DELAWARE.

The Carolinian goes through Raleigh, not Lynchburg.

Winston Salem-Greensboro

what ever they put out is BS. We need Boring frontfaceing Commuters.. Not long distance Train nerd ferries

Here in Colorado our light rail throughout the Front Range is primary used for homeless sleeping quarters. Our ski train programs keep getting canceled due to lack of usage, and like California's massive rail projects all end in massive overspending never ending projects. I grew up around the Grand County portal of Moffat, and freight pays it's way, passengers in Colorado do not. In fact RTD just approved a $1.2 BILLION budget for 2025, while ridership is even further down from previous years. All on the backs of the few taxpayers left.

A 'Pocket Track'... I know you are an AI generated speech from a script... but in your script, when a real Train Spotter = you would KNOW the spur off the main railway through tracks is called a "SIDING". IF/When the SIDING reconnects to the mainline, the Siding is called a "PASSING LOOP". A Railway Station has a Passing Loop to remove the stopping service from the mainline. A Railway TERMINUS has a Siding. A train that enters a siding only exits in the direction from which it came. In NYC, Grand Central Terminus platforms are all on Sidings... it lacks the through tracks... but the platforms are still on Sidings. Penn Station is a combination of Sidings and Passing Loops. The Sidings have trains that enter, stop disembark/embark, return the way it came. The Passing Loop platforms have trains leave the mainline, stop at platforms, disembark/embark, and carry onwards in the same direction of travel. A Passing Loop can be anywhere on a railway. It is where the SLOWER trains move off the main rails UP or DOWN lines so the Faster DMUs and EMUs can zip past.

The Gulf coast line needs to get to Orlando if it's to bring in more riders. This Mobile proposal is a waste of money, just restore the entire route. No longer will people need to go roundabout to get to the south. It would increase more people on the Silver route and the Floridian. CSX got federal money after the hurricane years ago to restore service so let Amtrak back on it.

They need to make a direct Amtrak service from Charlotte to Wilmington that connects west to east and not have to go up to Raleigh. There’s already a train line we’d just need to work with CSX

I think the Salisbury to Asheville line will be postponed due to the damages from Helene on the rail lines.

Is this Atlanta to Nashville Lane on their own line, or are they gonna be running on freight lines?

If I remember looking an article talking about passenger train service in the South Bay, the Capitol Corridor is also planning to run 2 round trips a day to and from Salinas. Caltrain also plans to run some trains that way as part of the proposal for restoring other passenger rail service in Monterey County.

We no longer have a Amtrak friendly Gov't in power so it's likely much of these plans will be scrapped or significantly cutback!!

Anyone else notice the visual while talking about Wilmington, NC had a Septa train for it? .... Wrong Wilmington lol septa is DE

Thank you for bringing more attention to passenger rail in the Southeast. Eighteen (18) states participate in the Amtrak/State Partnership program. It means that 18 states help to fund passenger rail. Virginia and North Carolina are included. That is why you will see the realization of projects in Virginia and North Carolina. Atlanta should be a great passenger railway hub, but the state of Georgia will not spend a dime, and you won't see anything happen there. North Carolina built the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR) in the 1850s. The state still owns it. NCRR runs from Charlotte to Morehead City. Construction of the S line has started between Raleigh and Wake Forest. The S line will run at 110 mph (max) between Raleigh and Petersburg. The Raleigh to Wilmington NC route does not have any major roadblocks. The fabulous Raleigh Union Station has already seen multiple increases in service. The Commonwealth of Virginia got smart. Highway widening has limits and they have been hit. Thanks.

There's something special about rail... i'm not referring to city public transit. It's something special would be nice to have a nationwide system to compete with air.

The passenger preference legislation is NOT enforced. Amtrak has the exact same problems as Vi.

Where are they going to get the equipment? It took them over a decade to get a 100 viewliners. And since Katrina, we still don’t have service resumed along the gulf coast. The freight partners don’t want additional passenger trains. The national long distance network is in shambles. No capacity due to lack of equipment and continuous locomotive failures. Horrible on time performance. I’m all for a successful Amtrak, but these “corridor” concepts will happen at the detriment of the long distance trains.

Dear god please buy the right of way for Capitol Corridor. Trains get screwed so much because of guy it’d be nice to increase some of the segments in the valley up to 90 mph

Bring Sunset Limited to Florida!!!!!!

I live close to Tampa, and we desperately need more frequent train service. In fact, it would be wonderful if Amtrak could be extended further west to St Petersburg.

If you've ever wondered if there is a big difference between North and South Carolina, just think of how much rail news you heard about one in just this video compared to how much you never, ever hear about the other one. Sometimes I think they only have half a name in common.

The additional trains could be great were the average speed to increase atleast 50% from 50 mph to 75 mph so that they are close to or exceed travel times for cars.

Ironically, the Trump administration did approve $650M for Caltrain’s electrification project

I'm looking forward to the expansions in Virginia. Main Street Station has so much potential and will act almost as a "crossroads" between northeastern and southeastern locations. I hope that the long-distance trains will eventually be rerouted to Main Street so that passengers can disembark closer to Downtown Richmond. The S-Line project may make that possible since the station will likely see capacity enhancements from the project. It would also be nice if a frequent shuttle train (something like the Valley Flyer) could be established between Richmond - Newport News and Richmond - Norfolk. This way, more frequent service can be offered to Hampton Roads locations without necessarily extending a full train to the stations, and the shuttle can connect riders with more frequent service passing through Richmond.

Amtrak should connect Phoenix to LA via Palm Springs via Hiway 10 straight to Phoenix not down through Yuma

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America is back! From Salinas here. I also heard that there are big plans for the Coast Starlight between San Luis Obispo and San Jose to add some routes, including in King City, and increase frequency. Currently there are only two daily trains from Salinas. One goes south to Los Angeles(330 miles/531 kilometers) and one goes north to San Jose/Oakland/Sacramento/Portland/Seattle. A crying shame, but there is hope. 😪🚝🙏

Is there a RAILROAD 🛤️ RENAISSANCE occurring in the *United States 🇺🇸?*

GOP is now in complete control of all 3 Branches, watch all these plans come to a screeching halt!!

I found this quite an informative video! I look forward to seeing what new passenger trains will operate into the Moffat Tunnel in the next few years. Thanks for making this! I'll subscribe!

Before covid one living in Central Ca I had the choice of leaving Hanfordzat 5:30 in the am getting off in Stockton and boarding a bus to San Jose. The other choice wich I called the scenic route traveled to Oakland. I got off in Emeryville and waited for the train that would stop at Santa Clara or end of trail at San Jose. The ride back to Hanford was the same in reverse. I could choose to leave at 9:30in the am. And arrive in the afternoon. I have ridden your new train. It's nie but it has no cafe. If this train should begin running north on the 711 train route I would definitely buy my breakfast at McDonald's. As I do this now as the cafe service is non existent due to breakdowns in that car. As for those of who may be physically affected entering and exiting the train , the steps are to getting on or off, the built in drop steps are still to high to manage I was helped on board with the use of a hand cranked platform. Upon arriving in Hanford the platform wasn't in place so it took two conductors and a third person to help me get down. Foolish me. I assumed because they helped me ontatthey would help me get off the same way. I now know to remind them Im going to need help when I arrive in Hanford.

Brightline should just go ahead and pick its Amtrak name now so it can lock in something like “Atlantic Brightliner”

Electrification?

Amtrak is not a business. It’s. A political bureaucracy.

There is a Northeast Corridor, but I don’t think there is such a thing as an Amtrak “Western Corridor”. At least not any time soon.

It is shame Los Angeles and San Diego is not connected by railroad! You cannot ride from North to South California non stop and government still doesn't rush tk fix this problem! Yes! You can ride from Los Angeles to San Diego but it is a turtle ride and then you have to use thr bus to ride to San Bernardino to get to rail station in North California direction! How come we live in always praised the best state but it is like living in middle ages

This is ai slop people!

Maybe we are finally getting somewhere on the Winter Park Express. As the video mentions, previously prices were as high as $139 RT. Thats just insane, and of course no one (or not many people used it). The proposed prices of $19-$39 each way so ($40-$80 RT) make more sense, but it's still a hard sell competing with cars, especially when people carpool.

AI slop script. Yawnnn

We need the federal government, working with the states, to finance the purchase and electrification of the actual rails and lease trackage rights to freight operators and passenger operators similar to Italy. We also need to build actual capacity to directly build and maintain the rails and systems like is done in Spain instead of everything being a one off private contract. Then higher speeds can be increased by straightening routes, grade separation, and adding bypasses. The problem is that to get 63 billion for rail the infrastructure law also included 630 billion for highways, and most of the 63 billion is going to replacing Amtrak rolling stock plus the NEC. Twenty billion of the 63 goes to replace one existing tunnel to NYC. This was basically just enough to keep rail on life support. Imagine a world where rail got 630 billion and highways got 63 instead.

It will require tens of billions of dollars to do these so-called fantasy plans. Show me the money.