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I heard Ford would keep 3 platforms for if passenger rail ever returns to the area. And with the Chicago to Tronto line. I won’t be surprised

https://www.secondwavemedia.com/concent ... 82022.aspx

More news. An interesting one.

LansingRailFan wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:36 pm

Fellas…why would anyone want to fund additional Amtrak trains When the engines don’t work half the time?

I am with you. I dont like those new charges. I rode from Lansing to Chicago once and they just looked ugly.

A train from Ann Arbor to Traverse City can be viable BUT you need to run daily. Need a train to depart TC in the AM and Ann Arbor in the A.M. than return back each day. Need also local passenger service, bus, from the depot to get around town. Before all this happens we need to get a Detroit-Michi...

Talk wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:16 am

DaveO wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:42 am

Holland???? Might as well stop in Marquette too.

Chicago soon.

I ment Howell sorry

Perhaps adding a fraction, but not a large fraction. The endpoint issues remain regardless of how many endpoints there are along the line. How do you get to the train? How do you get where you really want to go after you get off the train? Without good connectivity it might as well be a train to no...

There are not enough passengers along that route who would use train transportation to justify the cost of the equipment/people/etc. Ya I understand that but what if it stopped in Madison, Green Bay, Milluake, and Marquette? won't that be enough? Yikes...that would be a long slow trip... I do not t...

This is an opinion not backed by fact. It's based on common sense...something that is lacking from people who think an Ann Arbor to TC passenger train would work. When I told my grandpa this project he said it won't work but would work if they did excursions. One reasons why he said this is cause i...

It is actually weird there is no Passenger trains from like Chicago to Sault Ste Marine MI and ON. There are not enough passengers along that route who would use train transportation to justify the cost of the equipment/people/etc. Ya I understand that but what if it stopped in Madison, Green Bay, ...

~Z~ wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:17 am

Gonna toss this video in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBtDEFGOJNg

It is actually weird there is no Passenger trains from like Chicago to Sault Ste Marine MI and ON.

1) What are the benefits to society? 2) How would you pay for it? If you look at the issue more broadly, there is merit to trains vs road travel. That being said, I PERSONALLY see this as something that could be a seasonal venture, but what they "want" is not realistic necessarily. In the United St...

Does anyone know if they would do a excursion trip from Owosso to Monroe. I would love to ride that

I think a commuter rail line would be great but instead of trying to establish one on tracks that don’t exist why not commuter rail service between Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids on the Gand Elk line first … then Grand Rapids would have a rail link to Detroit and Chicago via Amtrak out of Kalamazoo. Ju...

Why on earth does everybody seem to think that passenger trains to Traverse City might be a good idea? Lol Cause some people like the idea. Even if it sounds stupid to some people. People think it would be cool having “if this line existed” have the cherry capital of the world connected to Beer cit...

Why on earth does everybody seem to think that passenger trains to Traverse City might be a good idea? Lol Cause some people like the idea. Even if it sounds stupid to some people. People think it would be cool having “if this line existed” have the cherry capital of the world connected to Beer cit...

Interesting idea. Too bad the rails got taken out in the first place. Some state money would be needed. One other possibility passenger service to TC from GR. That probably has a better chance of success than AA to TC. An additional advantage is that at some point the metro GR area may want to look...

Here is my report if GLC ever made the white pine trail into a line from Cadillac to Grand Rapids. So if they did this they will have to share tracks with Marquette rail for a while and then CSX to go to the yard in Wyoming. They will have to remove 44 miles of concrete (Cadillac to Big Rapids) the ...

A daily train to from Ann Arbor to Traverse City is a great idea. Need to run two trains every day. One S.B. out of TC to AA and one N.B. from AA to TC. That way people in the middle of the route can get to TC or AA. The bad part is in AA you would have to get off train in eather North AA or at the...

I mean I believe this could happen. If it doesn’t work then it doesn’t work. If it works it works. And if they make MDOT loose a lot of money they can just sue the hell out of groundwork’s

DaveO wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:08 am

Resurrect a thread that has been at rest for over 8 years to add that?
Okay

Well this was back in 2013 and I wasn't in Elementray. I saw this and I wanted to add on to it. didn't know I could not do that.