Michael

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[Michael @mjc0203]

@quartzion55 @upzonenj It’s a line that was engineered in the 1850s. The Bellefonte Central Railroad had a plan to connect Huntington and State College but it never came to fruition past Pine Grove Mills on the north side of the ridge

[Michael @mjc0203]

@alanthefisher @JonahA59 The thing abt it I know is that clearance is too short for electrification, but I figure they may be other problems? It’s really old

[Michael @mjc0203]

@Sammy9004 @PoliticsPA @Awildschild Main inhibitor to electrification is Black Rock Tunnel in Phoenixville, the clearance is too short

[Michael @mjc0203]

@fifimcfae PA counties cannot use locally raised tax revenue for public transportation https://t.co/IQOLur9MXu

[Michael @mjc0203]

Amtrak conductor called it “New York Penn Station” and not “Moynihan Train Hall”😌

[Michael @mjc0203]

@PA_Supremacist So does Downingtown as they build a new station a little bit west of the current station location

[Alan Fisher @alanthefisher]

Yeah can't relate

[Michael @mjc0203]

@Progress4PA @crosstown_line It would still be nice if they got extra equipment bc instead of being extra it’d replace old & unreliable equipment. I take the Keystone daily daily and sometimes it gets delayed bc of mechanical issues, probably at least in part from the cab cars being older than Amtrak itself

[Michael @mjc0203]

@erik_griswold @beyonddc WAS to ALX wouldn’t really make sense, because then instead of doing the electric to/from diesel locomotive swap at WAS where the yard is, you’d have to build a new yard in ALX. It’d make more sense to just electrify all the way to Richmond, which they should do

[Michael @mjc0203]

@conorjrogers Seeing no trains on the https://t.co/RhzXnmrFBc map between Philly and NYC on a Monday morning is kind of eerie lol

[Michael @mjc0203]

@ArcainiLuke It was incredible to watch in person

[Michael @mjc0203]

@uckema @Awildschild I assume by slot limited you mean NYP tunnel capacity? If so this doesn’t propose adding more trains, just altering the PennDOT subsidy to cover PHL to NYP trips for PA residents. And passenger limitations can be remedied by adding more coaches; they can be longer than 5 cars

[Michael @mjc0203]

@abhishekarghya @Awildschild 1) well of course not lol and 2) right and I’m suggesting amending it so that there is more affordable travel between Philadelphia and NYC. You can’t add more trains going into Penn bc of tunnel capacity, so why not make the PennDOT Keystone subsidy cover PHL-NYP trips too?

[Michael @mjc0203]

@RAILMag Oh yeah, that makes sense lol. If only there was a federal electrification program😔

[Michael @mjc0203]

@Aden_Yacobi @RAILMag This would be tricky because of Black Rock Tunnel bear Phoenixville, as it’s overheard clearance (17’) is too low for electrification

[Michael @mjc0203]

@danieljtgallen I think if you block grok that prevents it from working!

[Audrey Snyder @audsnyder4]

@ralphDrussoATH Hey @TheAthletic Might wanna add an attribution here for the 10 local reporters who were in the room away from cameras where this was said. We've been here the whole way and will continue to be.

[Michael @mjc0203]

Can I get a gold star sticker @twiabp?