Re: Train Travel
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:39 pm
Ninja'd
Some commuter rail systems will be affected also.
Some commuter rail systems will be affected also.
Rail Strike Averted After White House Brokers ‘Tentative’ Deal—Here’s What You Need To Know
And here's why that's terrible for Joe Biden and Democrats:Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:54 am Please oh please oh please...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/ra ... r-AA11QHjN
Rail Strike Averted After White House Brokers ‘Tentative’ Deal—Here’s What You Need To Know
Welcome to my world.northland10 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:00 am .....
Edit: Ninja'd, I forgot to look one page forward.
Wait for service to be restored or wait to see if this will all start over again? Amtrak is working to restore the canceled trains and Metra has already reversed some of the Thursday night cancellations they had on Union Pacific and BNSF lines.
HORNELL, N.Y. — In a sprawling complex surrounded by hills, hundreds of yellow-vested workers are building the nation’s fastest trains — resembling the European-style rail cars that have largely been absent from American tracks.
The buzz of activity fills the Alstom manufacturing plant in this small western New York town, where concrete floors shine and the whizzing of drills echoes to the high ceilings. In every direction, Amtrak’s most advanced rail cars sit in various stages of construction.
The new Acela trains will roll through the nation’s busiest rail stations beginning next year, representing a significant step toward America’s aspirations for modern, faster and more reliable intercity train service. The trains will overhaul passenger service in the busy Northeast Corridor, aiming to improve safety, reliability, rider comfort and capacity.
America faces a growing risk of a crippling national freight rail strike in two weeks after rank-and-file members of the nation’s largest rail union, which represents the industry’s conductors, rejected a tentative labor deal with freight railroads, the union announced Monday.
The nation’s second-largest rail union, which represents engineers, ratified its own contract. But the failure of the conductors to ratify their own deal is another setback to efforts to avoid a crippling nationwide rail strike.
With these votes, all 12 rail unions have now completed their ratification process, with members of eight of the unions voting in favor of deals and four voting against it. The four unions that have voted no will remain on the job until at least early next month while negotiations are held to try to avoid a strike that could cause widespread disruptions in the nation’s still struggling supply chain and overall economy.
A project that will bring long-awaited Long Island Rail Road trains to the East Side of Manhattan that's been years in the making is still slated to open by the end of 2022, MTA officials told Patch Tuesday.
According to the MTA's website, the project known as East Side Access will culminate with the opening of Grand Central Madison, a new terminal along Madison Avenue between 43rd and 48th Streets.
Not only will the new terminal mean easier access to the East Side for Long Island commuters, it will save those same passengers up to 40 minutes of travel time per day, the MTA said.
According to the MTA site, about 45 percent of LIRR commuters are expected to go to Grand Central Madison, so there will be less crowding at Penn Station and the surrounding subway lines.
I did a double-take reading that quotation, because I was sure the AP had slipped in a quotation from the wrong President. But nope, that’s the current President speaking.“I negotiated a contract no one else could negotiate. What was negotiated was so much better than anything they ever had.”
The bulk of the journey, between Bangor and London Euston, is on Avanti West Coast, the much-maligned operator that managed to run just 39% of its trains on time between July and September this year. The Avanti portion of the ticket was £498.60.
By comparison, a first class Interrail ticket offering unlimited train travel in 33 European countries for 15 days costs €590 (£508).
His ticket should have guaranteed him a Christmas dinner with wine, but on his outward leg from Euston to Bangor on Saturday afternoon, the driver announced there would be no first-class service because of staff shortages.
On his return journey, he was waiting at Bangor station on Sunday morning for the 10.05 train to Euston, only for the train to be cancelled at 10.07.
Seeing some of the other trains running with the music train, I was hoping they would end with the 1812 Overture and with a giant crash for the cannon.Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:38 pm How cool is this?
https: //www.facebook.com/watch?v=980225356699674
How 'bout Pachebel (about the only way I can stand that canon)?keith wrote: ↑Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:04 pmSeeing some of the other trains running with the music train, I was hoping they would end with the 1812 Overture and with a giant crash for the cannon.Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:38 pm How cool is this?
https: //www.facebook.com/watch?v=980225356699674