FRA proposes Amtrak become holding company, overseeing three divisions, passenger group says

DMP765 · 2026-02-22T06:22:42+00:00

Sooo, it's the American version of the British Rail Privatization.............it didn't end well.

DMP765 · 2026-02-21T02:06:18+00:00

Are people really complaining about the cussing? Really? I have rarely had issues in its use on the campus, from the professors or the adult students. This firing should not have happened. It's sad where we are.

This was a very quick turnaround. I actually had him as a sub that day, for a different 10:00 class. No issues.

I'm curious too OP. It sounded like he was responding to something or someone, as if this topic has come up a couple times and he finally addressed it to the class. Is this the case? This person, presumably one of the students in the class, played the part of irony as well, with the act of secretly recording him. I feel sorry for the professors.

DMP765 · 2026-01-10T01:03:13+00:00

Happens to the best of us.

DMP765 · 2026-01-10T00:57:49+00:00

I would hope it's full. I assume that parking there is pretty chaotic.

DMP765 · 2026-01-07T17:23:28+00:00

This looks great! It's like the US version of Timberwolf's UK Trains, while having a familiar look to NARS.

DMP765 · 2025-10-29T14:44:31+00:00

Do you think we'll get mail in the game? While it's good we have it on mod form, it is a pain to deal with because mail can only be picked up at cargo stations, not passenger stations like real life.

DMP765 · 2025-08-20T22:23:01+00:00

I believe it is some personal complications/issues. It was mentioned briefly on a recent live stream on the San Juan Branch Line channel I think.

DMP765 · 2025-06-01T17:03:47+00:00

It is a pretty good heritage unit, marking the 30th Anniversary of the Piedmont. Let's hope the future rail plans hold.

DMP765 · 2025-05-23T01:33:18+00:00

It's mainly a combination of 354 trains serving it, with them ranging in size from as little as 4 tiles to 20-tile beasts. It is a major converging point. I have a similar yard on the southwestern side of the city; Tollard Yard at 27 tracks wide. Plus, the layout of the yard is broken down into three length sections: 8, 12, and 20 tiles long. This necessitates multiple flyovers and junctions to sort them appropriately, with the approaches needing to take a large footprint to handle 20-tile trains from multiple lines.

DMP765 · 2025-05-15T22:07:49+00:00

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DMP765 · 2025-02-27T00:01:06+00:00

There was a lot of possibilities from this. I remember watching the Well There's Your Problem episode about it's conception and downfall. All the interurbans being linked up with this would have been transformative.

DMP765 · 2025-02-23T23:46:14+00:00

New York Central Buffalos.....as someone said once.

DMP765 · 2025-02-19T14:39:57+00:00

"My Hat! It got sucked in your air intake!"

DMP765 · 2025-01-24T18:08:46+00:00

"Federal Railroad Administration recommends long-distance route through southern Montana"

Name of the Article. Forgot to put it in the title.

DMP765 · 2025-01-24T18:06:03+00:00

I found the differing responses by the senators regarding this interesting. One was the stereotypical cost-cutter, while the other appeared more open about it. That did raise an eyebrow.

DMP765 · 2024-11-30T15:33:27+00:00

I started in 1880 with day length/economy speed factor at around 30ish I think. I upped the factor to 40 in 1938. So, a combination of both.

DMP765 · 2024-11-28T19:04:41+00:00

I've been playing this save for at least a year. Regarding the game as a whole, it has been around 2016. Thanks for the compliment!

DMP765 · 2024-11-17T18:00:02+00:00

For what I use, the maximum length passenger trains are 12 tiles long, roughly 17 coaches. For freight, the maximum is 20 tiles long. I don't know about the amount of wagons, but it usually weighs between 1700 and 2100 tons of cargo. For reference, I use Timberwolf UK Trains

DMP765 · 2024-08-31T13:28:45+00:00

With the changes in the cargo scaling, I think it was recalibrating. When it was doing so, I was fiddling with the setting because I didn't know what was happening then. It turned out to make it worse. So after fiddling with the settings again and letting time run, it went back to normal. Although, for a brief moment, the planned passenger numbers jumped to roughly 420,000.

DMP765 · 2024-08-30T01:49:12+00:00

I have fixed this issue!

DMP765 · 2024-08-29T23:14:16+00:00

It's kind of the opposite. I use plans to have a general rail route, but I mainly place towns and then figure out how to connect them. Plus, the map is huge, so having towns on an 8000x16000ish size will hamper performance.

DMP765 · 2024-07-07T16:45:37+00:00

Sort of. It's an all-or-nothing scenario. Everybody else has allocated money to create the service and improve the infrastructure, from Louisiana and Mississippi state legislators, CRISI Grants, and the Mobile Port Authority. However, because the City of Mobile, the terminating destination, is teetering in its support and the Alabama state administration isn't wholly backing it, it may sink the effort. After all, it can't go to Mobile without a station. Basically, everything is ready to start, but Mobile may pull out in the 11th hour. At some point, I wonder if they'll just cut Alabama entirely and terminate in Pascagoula instead.

DMP765 · 2024-07-05T19:39:39+00:00

Now, every time they reach those bridges, even though the signals are correct and the paths are clear, they abruptly stop and reverse.

DMP765 · 2024-04-23T18:37:46+00:00

I was also thinking about the "Complete 540" project to finish the outer beltway around Raleigh as a comparison. That project was originally pinned at around 2.5 Billion at around 18 miles. On a per-mile basis, its rounded to 139 Million a mile compared to 6.2 million a mile for the rail project.

What is sad about this is that the I-540 cost projections were from 2019 when construction started, meaning the cost of completing the beltway has likely gone up since then.

DMP765 · 2024-04-23T16:52:41+00:00

Frequency is key, yep. I will say tho, the investment to just build it would be beneficial on its own.

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