Alan Fisher

Huh, marked for the next time I visit

Lol where is this?

Nope! This is actually rolling stock related 🚄

The new Acela is a much needed upgrade to the old and aging fleet, and the increased capacity of the new fleet can also hopefully alleviate some of the insane demand of the northeast corridor. The new trains are great, but...

YouTube video by Alan Fisher Amtrak’s New High Speed Train is Great, But…

Amtrak's next gen Acela brings increased Capacity, Higher Speeds, and Updated Interiors; but there's one trend that is haunting the North American Rail industry and unless it's reversed we're all in for a worse ride. I talk about it in today's video:
youtu.be/jktlZ8706Bc

The Philly Inquirer has stayed surprising on point through the last few years

The Norfolk Southern Café

Really loving the right-wingers that spew violent rhetoric 24/7 suddenly saying that it's bad, or that making fun of Kirk (who also did these things), is bad.

Don't be an incredibly shitty person and people won't celebrate your death. It's that easy.

Wow, are you saying that immediately folding and giving up doesn't work? I'm hearing this for the first time

Lmfao what kremlin shaped rock did you craw out from?
Hopefully you're getting paid for this otherwise you're just an idiot

I will make fun of them until they improve the 2 intercity trains a day between Sydney and Melbourne.... embrasassing

possibly, but also now the dems can drag out the budget negotiations to hurt rural districts more, which will force republicans to accept more of their stipulations

possibly this helps budget negotiations because it takes away the Republicans leverage of using SEPTA as a ticking timebomb, so that the Dems can get a better budget done eventually

I might have to make an apology video for Hochul since it seems she's done a 180 on everything including congestion pricing.

Now if only she was more aggressive on the NY housing plan

If this asshole Lawyer actually gave a shit about SEPTA he'd be yelling at the Republicans instead of working with them.
Absolutely a money chasing snake

Free range rolling stock

End time we'll be going for 2-3 hours

6pm we'll roughly be there, and it's casual. Otherwise I'll be around for future events

This has super casual, and I'll be hosting more meetups in the near future in other places too

Also dragging @josephpolitano.bsky.social out to this too

DC Union station with 2 Acelas, old and new

I'm in DC for the weekend and we're having a small last minute meetup/hangout at the Dew Drop Inn, Tomorrow (Monday) at 6pm!

The bar is also next to the CSX mainline and the metro so it's definitely entertaining

Yes lmao, I'm putting a video together about it tonight

Oh I didn't know that you were also onboard!

Huh, I didn't know that the train was built first

eventually I gotta make another video about VTA, every story I hear about them internally is 'The Office' levels of comedic stupidity

congrats!!

Financially tied railroad to a railroad it runs on and they both hate each other.

Welcome back B&O and Reading Railroads

possibly amtrak might take it over, but its too soon to know

"its profitable as long as the government is subsidizing them"
ah yes, good argument

this is less an issue of low ridership and more an issue of they expanded too quickly and covid gave them a slow start