The Marathwada Rail Coach Factory at Latur, Maharashtra will manufacture nearly 1,600 coaches for the upgraded Vande Bharat trains with each costing 8 crore to 9 crore - Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
A brief history of the "Dan Patch Line" (Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway). Seen here is DT-6-6-2000 #23 in service on May 20, 1971. Bob Johnson photo. https://t.co/zj1iKgNiFB
@peterlewis_jpg@RAILMag In an ideal world, the state of Illinois (or Amtrak) would’ve owned the Alton since the UP/SP merger and lease freight space back to the UP.
@Ray_Phenicie@alanthefisher Three bus systems if you count Transit Windsor; also, I don’t even know whose auspices the Tunnel Bus falls under. Obvious immediate answer is international bus service in the tunnel, on the Ambo & the future Howe, plus a casino ferry. Ideal future service would include LRT.
@thejoshp Generally yes, most countries either separate their passenger and freight service onto separate lines, or give priority to passenger trains where they share tracks. The US and Canada are largely unique in freight having the priority.
This neatly describes the difference between American passenger railroading and world (in this case Indian 🇮🇳) passenger railroading: we’re stuck in our glory days of the 1950s, they’re building thousands of miles of state-of-the-art HSR. @americanrails@IndianTechGuide
@ImClaaara @JosefFortier@csilverandgold The supply chain is overwhelmingly controlled by the Radical Right though, either on a command level (ex: Uline) or on the individual truck driver level. Couple that with the obvious police sympathy for anti-liberal causes and you can see how cities could be blockaded.
@AryaSaj@the_transit_guy Would be great, but Sunnyside is still pretty far from LGA by surface streets. You’d have to tie SSD Station into the LGA AirTrain project for it to make sense.