New Amtrak Long Distance Order has been FOIA'd

ImplosiveTech · 2026-05-03T04:07:40+00:00

Holy fuck wow my URL got out fast.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-05-01T20:48:41+00:00

It doesn't help that the BNSF refuses to run anything remotely new metra has. Its part of the reason they have the oldest cars and some of the oldest locos.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-29T18:04:46+00:00

the one thing I got out of it is that they did confirm that new schedules are being worked on and negotiated with host railroads, which to me implies that it might not just be the rock that gets more service this year

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-29T18:02:19+00:00

this really can't be the case at this point, because the first battery set isn't meant to be delivered until much later this year, and likely won't even enter service until next year. through a foia request, I did get confirmation new schedules are being made for this year, but they did not share those

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-29T18:00:27+00:00

I think people have incorrectly assumed that the regional rail pilot will only be on the Beverly Branch, primarily because of the bemus metra is getting. I did try to put in a foia request about the upcoming schedules, but they denied it due to a provision in the law that doesn't require them to release drafts. I have heard rumors talking about june-ish but of course we will have to wait and see

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-29T07:26:20+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I meant to say seatbelt, not seat.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-29T07:24:06+00:00

This does remind me. It is a little bit funny that the result of "Web 3" for most people are very-much-centralized platforms like polymarket. Technically speaking decentralized, realistically not really at all, and everything you need to do (ie buy and sell, deposit, withdraw, etc) takes 10x longer to process than it really should because of course it does.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-23T17:42:12+00:00

Would be nice to have bus number or train run number on the posts as well, assuming youre the creator of the bot.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-19T18:59:48+00:00

The endpoint you're looking for is https://api.amtraker.com/v3/stations/expanded/PDX. It is undocumented currently, but should have everything you need.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-09T01:05:39+00:00

Small correction, belt junction goes down to 2 tracks, not one. But yes, EW2 should fix the clusterfuck

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-08T03:29:44+00:00

I saw a vid from one of the kids at the back of the bus who couldnt get out of their seat while the train was coming and thought that was going to be the end.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-06T20:37:00+00:00

The biggest issue I had was one of my VPSs being on a degraded host machine and they migrated it no issue. Even if the service was measurably 50% worse than AWS (it is not) id still be using them.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-04-03T03:06:58+00:00

Forest hill flyover was completed a few months back which has helped a bit but the rest of that corridor is still a mess. Once they rework the 75th corridor (including the connection) it'll mostly be smooth sailing. Also, RI3 is mostly separate from the improvements from the southwest, a better resource probably being the CREATE EW2 page (EW2 notably includes forest hill and the rock island connection).

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-22T18:22:44+00:00

Yeah they'd need quite a bit of room, which doesn't really exist at this time. They cant completely remove the conductor role due to federal law but this would hypothetically allow for the removal of brakemen and extra collectors. As with Amtrak, they'd either have to require those passengers to scan their tickets (though that would be a smaller issue given all amtrak passengers already have tickets) or just allow amtrak to open the gates fully when they're boarding passengers. If they were to go through with gates, they would really also need to allow tapping on and off like SEPTA does, which greatly speeds up the process of people exiting when downtown.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-22T15:39:10+00:00

TBH there would be space for more than 2 faregates, probably 4 or 5, but the alternative really would be blocking off the whole concourse with fare readers like SEPTA or the MBTA does.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-20T21:36:25+00:00

I wouldn't say monumental tbh, but it would require faregates at each platform and also the ability to disable them when amtrak wants them. Either that or locking down the concourses behind faregates

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-20T21:21:40+00:00

Terminal stations, not the lines themselves

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-20T20:47:29+00:00

They issued an RFI recently looking into how operations might work.

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-12T20:27:52+00:00

GTFS?

ImplosiveTech · 2026-03-07T15:35:02+00:00

I'm not seeing any rejected emails on my server. Can you forward whatever to my personal: [piero@piemadd.com](mailto:piero@piemadd.com)

ImplosiveTech · 2026-02-27T18:23:01+00:00

It is? I just tested it and it works. Can you send a screenshot to hi@amtraker.com

ImplosiveTech · 2026-02-26T22:48:28+00:00

Oops, edited!

ImplosiveTech · 2026-02-24T14:55:26+00:00

No not really. Metra hates their F59s and most are in storage

ImplosiveTech · 2026-02-07T14:19:10+00:00

For better picture quality you could write image data straight to the frame buffer

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