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More On the Penn Station Problem.
All Posts | Passenger Trains

More On the Penn Station Problem.

ByJim Loomis 05/07/201705/07/2017

Some 25 years ago, when I rediscovered long-distance train travel, I had a lot of catching up to do. For three decades I had been living in Hawaii with no passenger trains and hadn’t actually ridden on a train of any kind since the early 1960’s. Once I got back into long-distance train travel, and…

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Amtrak’s REAL Problem Revealed.
All Posts | Amtrak

Amtrak’s REAL Problem Revealed.

ByJim Loomis 04/30/201705/02/2017

  Amtrak’s president and CEO, Wick Moorman, testified at a committee hearing recently and there were some illuminating nuggets within his comments.   For instance, we all know that there are problems with the Northeast Corridor infrastructure. New tunnels to take trains under the Hudson River and into New York’s Penn Station are urgently needed….

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Penn Station–A National Disgrace.
All Posts | Train Stations

Penn Station–A National Disgrace.

ByJim Loomis 04/22/201704/23/2017

Penn Station here in New York City is really a mess. No, it’s more than that, it’s a disgrace. Dark, dingy and crowded. And broken down. The escalators were not working when I arrived on the Maple Leaf Friday night and my choices were (1) wait with a hundred other people for a slow elevator…

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Toronto-New York on The Maple Leaf.
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Toronto-New York on The Maple Leaf.

ByJim Loomis 04/21/201704/22/2017

The better part of this day was taken up by travel from Toronto to New York City on Amtrak’s daily train, the Maple Leaf.   Technically, it’s a VIA Rail train for the first couple of hours, the time it takes to travel from Toronto’s Union Station to the U.S.-Canadian border at Niagara Falls, New…

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