I'm also aware FlixBus has made a deal with FirstGroup that is working its way through the regulatory process. This video was made before that was announced.
Your route map is a virtual duplicate of the one that's been in my head since I first thought of these things back in high-school/college days. I really hadn't thought of using Amtrak to connect the reservations into the national transportation network, but that's brilliant! Of course, I began thinking of a national rail network in the 1970s, before Conrail tore up the old Pennsy tracks between Columbus and Indianapolis and before the B&O tracks across southern Ohio to Cincinnati went away, so there are some routes (DC-Cincinnati and Pittsburgh-St Louis, e.g.) that I included that don't have a good workaround these days. I like the idea of a national service standard for business class (hot, better-than-cafe-car, meals, an adult beverage or two, 2-1 seating), although I would encourage regional variations in the food offerings to accommodate local specialties, e.g., cod and haddock in New England, salmon in the Pacific Northwest, trout in the mountains, Chicago hot dogs and Italian Beef sandwiches out of Chicago, coneys and deep-dish pizza out of Detroit, etc., etc. I'll admit there's a lot of wishful thinking here, but in a negotiation you shouldn't ask for the bare minimum you need, because you will never get everything you ask for. Ask for the moon, then negotiate for whatever you actually can get.
As a native of Central GA, I'm sitting here looking at a map of the old Central of Georgia lines thinking about how many desolate small towns that used to dot those lines could still be healthy little communities if they had never lost rail access to the rest of the country.
Oh yeah, a couple of extra routes for which I believe the track still exists: Buffalo-Harrisburg through Williamsport, giving Buffalo and Toronto a more direct connection to the Southeast through Washington, and St Louis-Tulsa through Springrield, MO, giving a more direct route to Texas from the Midwest. Also, filling in a couple of gaps in rural areas, how about Cincinnati-Knoxville-Augusta, to create a dynamite Detroit=Toledo/Cleveland-Cincinnati-Florida routing, and KCS track between Kansas City and Shreveport to get between the upper Midwest and New Orleans?
Great video, but why Morristown az? Would not be enough demand it's too small of a town rather it's should be the whole hassayampa flyer front phoenix to flagstaff
Finally, assuming Amtrak gets to higher-speed rail Chicago-Detroit, and Via gets to the same for Windsor-Toronto-Montreal, how about a Chicago-Montreal HSR through train with real dining? Now, about the need for Chicago-Detroit to serve the northern burbs of Detroit, as at present, and the desire to through-run Chicago-Toronto, I'm not sure how you accommodate that. Michigan Central Station is going to be part of an office-entertainment complex soon, and running into the New Center Amtrak station, then backing up to go into Canada really isn't compatible with true HSR, so maybe this doesn't really work.
Austrias ÖBB in a nation of 8 million people manges 266,6 Mio. passges a year of wich are local 228,4 Mio year and is intercity 38,2 Mio year national 25,7 Mio a year international 12,5 Mio a year. To do this they run 4800 passenger trains per day. I hope that that America will one day get ther.
I'm also aware FlixBus has made a deal with FirstGroup that is working its way through the regulatory process. This video was made before that was announced.
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Your route map is a virtual duplicate of the one that's been in my head since I first thought of these things back in high-school/college days. I really hadn't thought of using Amtrak to connect the reservations into the national transportation network, but that's brilliant! Of course, I began thinking of a national rail network in the 1970s, before Conrail tore up the old Pennsy tracks between Columbus and Indianapolis and before the B&O tracks across southern Ohio to Cincinnati went away, so there are some routes (DC-Cincinnati and Pittsburgh-St Louis, e.g.) that I included that don't have a good workaround these days. I like the idea of a national service standard for business class (hot, better-than-cafe-car, meals, an adult beverage or two, 2-1 seating), although I would encourage regional variations in the food offerings to accommodate local specialties, e.g., cod and haddock in New England, salmon in the Pacific Northwest, trout in the mountains, Chicago hot dogs and Italian Beef sandwiches out of Chicago, coneys and deep-dish pizza out of Detroit, etc., etc.
I'll admit there's a lot of wishful thinking here, but in a negotiation you shouldn't ask for the bare minimum you need, because you will never get everything you ask for. Ask for the moon, then negotiate for whatever you actually can get.
Amhound! I kinda like it. Nice research, Train Hopper. You presented this dry data with some wit and much ease.
As a native of Central GA, I'm sitting here looking at a map of the old Central of Georgia lines thinking about how many desolate small towns that used to dot those lines could still be healthy little communities if they had never lost rail access to the rest of the country.
the best way to improve anything in this country is to hope that the entire west coast falls into the ocean
Oh yeah, a couple of extra routes for which I believe the track still exists: Buffalo-Harrisburg through Williamsport, giving Buffalo and Toronto a more direct connection to the Southeast through Washington, and St Louis-Tulsa through Springrield, MO, giving a more direct route to Texas from the Midwest. Also, filling in a couple of gaps in rural areas, how about Cincinnati-Knoxville-Augusta, to create a dynamite Detroit=Toledo/Cleveland-Cincinnati-Florida routing, and KCS track between Kansas City and Shreveport to get between the upper Midwest and New Orleans?
Great video, but why Morristown az? Would not be enough demand it's too small of a town rather it's should be the whole hassayampa flyer front phoenix to flagstaff
Should amtrack by out the rail of freight operators for ther traks?
Finally, assuming Amtrak gets to higher-speed rail Chicago-Detroit, and Via gets to the same for Windsor-Toronto-Montreal, how about a Chicago-Montreal HSR through train with real dining? Now, about the need for Chicago-Detroit to serve the northern burbs of Detroit, as at present, and the desire to through-run Chicago-Toronto, I'm not sure how you accommodate that. Michigan Central Station is going to be part of an office-entertainment complex soon, and running into the New Center Amtrak station, then backing up to go into Canada really isn't compatible with true HSR, so maybe this doesn't really work.
Austrias ÖBB in a nation of 8 million people manges 266,6 Mio.
passges a year of wich are local 228,4 Mio year and
is intercity 38,2 Mio year
national 25,7 Mio a year international 12,5 Mio a year. To do this they run 4800 passenger trains per day.
I hope that that America will one day get ther.