Worked out of the DC Onboard Services Crew Base between 93-97. I loved working the Montrealer. It was always a packed train, but they got rid of it for some reason.
Just reusing and modernizing the old Maine Central RR Station on St John Street in Portland would probably be too easy? Why build from Scratch, when you have nice Structures with a History 🤷♂️
1) It's already in use. 2) It was never a station. It is actually the old Maine Central Headquarters. The old station was located next door where a strip mall now is. 3) It's a little bit too far to the North. The idea is for the station to be next to the hospital, to allow it to serve a major destination.
@@00Zy99 Theoretically Amtrak CAN use 3rd rail electrification on the LIRR routes, but they'd have to get a locomotive designed for top-contact 3rd rail. Amtrak has a fleet of dual-mode locomotives that use bottom-contact 3rd rail for the southern end of the Empire Corridor going into NYC. Perhaps they could take a few of those and modify the contacts?
Worked out of the DC Onboard Services Crew Base between 93-97. I loved working the Montrealer. It was always a packed train, but they got rid of it for some reason.
Just reusing and modernizing the old Maine Central RR Station on St John Street in Portland would probably be too easy? Why build from Scratch, when you have nice Structures with a History 🤷♂️
These plans look great but will there be funding for all the improvements needed as well as operating. Costs at least at start up of new services?😊
1) It's already in use.
2) It was never a station. It is actually the old Maine Central Headquarters. The old station was located next door where a strip mall now is.
3) It's a little bit too far to the North. The idea is for the station to be next to the hospital, to allow it to serve a major destination.
Are any of these expansions gonna be fully electrified?
The Long Island extension to Ronkonkoma is electrified. But it has 3rd Rail electrification, which Amtrak can't use. So, who knows?
@@00Zy99 Theoretically Amtrak CAN use 3rd rail electrification on the LIRR routes, but they'd have to get a locomotive designed for top-contact 3rd rail. Amtrak has a fleet of dual-mode locomotives that use bottom-contact 3rd rail for the southern end of the Empire Corridor going into NYC. Perhaps they could take a few of those and modify the contacts?
@@iliketrains0pwnedthey will probably use battery powered ALCs for that route or maybe get SC42DMs for it