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BOB2 - remember when the Sunset went through
Author: PE NEWPORT 1940
Date: 10-17-2019 - 14:56
---the tracks have been restored for freight only---Joe B had very little political concern for restoring the sunset to florida (or nevada) ...at least he road the rails ! (the current dick running amtrak never rides steel wheels on steel rail) ---
Below is part of an article for you to glance at.
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Since 2015, however, the Federal Railroad Administration, Southern Rail Commission, and the congressionally-established Gulf Coast Rail Service Working Group have been working to determine whether or not it’s feasible to restore passenger rail service to the Gulf Coast.
Those efforts included a test run back in 2016, when an Amtrak train pulled into Gulf Coast stations for the first time in more than a decade.
The working group is due to submit a report to Congress by September, but CSX says that there are “overwhelming new legal requirements standing in the way” of restoring the rail service.
In its last year of operation, the Sunset Limited service east of New Orleans ran on time just 7 percent of the time. Now, CSX argues, new federal rules require passenger train service to run on time at least 80 percent of the time, a standard which just isn’t feasible on the Gulf Coast.
“Among the barriers to compliance, there are 17 drawbridges along the route where essential maritime traffic gets priority over trains,” Dech wrote. “As a result, it is virtually impossible to design a service that would reliably meet customer expectations or comply with the law.
No plan proposed by the Gulf Coast Working Group would come close to the 80 percent on-time performance requirement.”
BOB2 Wrote:
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This has also affected rail service. Do you
> remember when the hurricane stopped the through
> service on the Sunset along the gulf coast to
> Florida....and never restored?
>
>
Below is part of an article for you to glance at.
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Since 2015, however, the Federal Railroad Administration, Southern Rail Commission, and the congressionally-established Gulf Coast Rail Service Working Group have been working to determine whether or not it’s feasible to restore passenger rail service to the Gulf Coast.
Those efforts included a test run back in 2016, when an Amtrak train pulled into Gulf Coast stations for the first time in more than a decade.
The working group is due to submit a report to Congress by September, but CSX says that there are “overwhelming new legal requirements standing in the way” of restoring the rail service.
In its last year of operation, the Sunset Limited service east of New Orleans ran on time just 7 percent of the time. Now, CSX argues, new federal rules require passenger train service to run on time at least 80 percent of the time, a standard which just isn’t feasible on the Gulf Coast.
“Among the barriers to compliance, there are 17 drawbridges along the route where essential maritime traffic gets priority over trains,” Dech wrote. “As a result, it is virtually impossible to design a service that would reliably meet customer expectations or comply with the law.
No plan proposed by the Gulf Coast Working Group would come close to the 80 percent on-time performance requirement.”
BOB2 Wrote:
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This has also affected rail service. Do you
> remember when the hurricane stopped the through
> service on the Sunset along the gulf coast to
> Florida....and never restored?
>
>
