Wednesday, November 20, 2024

How to spend $650 million and make things worse as a result...

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As you might know, the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) finished a major multi-year $650-million double-tracking pr...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Ann Arbor Mini-High

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An Amtrak train next to the mini-high platform at the Ann Arbor station. The Ann Arbor station is located on the east-west Detroit – Chica...
Friday, March 26, 2021

“Netgraphs”

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Here is a very interesting graphical way to represent timetable information for a regularly running service, whose clockface schedule repeat...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Railjets

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The locomotive end of a Railjet trainset in the Austrian colors at the Graz station. Last winter, VIA Rail Canada ordered 32 new trainsets...
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Friday, April 06, 2018

Atlanta's rail system

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About a month ago I visited Atlanta. Atlanta's MARTA remained the only metro / heavy rail system in the U.S. that I did not explore in...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Capacity and reliability improvements in South-East Michigan

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Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has completed two important rail projects in the Metro Detroit area this winter. One is the so...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Three new rail stations opening this spring

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Three new major intercity rail stations are opening in the U.S. this spring. The three stations are in Denver, CO, St. Paul, MN, and Miami,...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

System maps

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A system map is a complete map of a transit system, which contains all rail and bus routes within the service area of a transit agency as we...
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