https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/first-new-train-arrival-amtrak-cascades-vancouver-seattle-portland
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Monday, August 25, 2025
The brand new Amtrak Cascades trains
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-cascades-new-trains-interior-design-photos-testing
Of course the backwards BC segment has yet to be double tracked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak#Lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amtrak_rolling_stock#Trainsets
Monday, February 24, 2025
Thursday, December 19, 2024
A Landslide halts Amtrak service between Seattle and Vancouver, once again
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-suspended-landslide-vancouver-seattle
A double track tunnel or even a trench would be very expensive to build. Thus, an elevated double track line would be better. However, people would likely complain and prefer the current backwater BC situation.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/12/19/vancouver-seattle-amtrak-rail-service-suspended-landslide/
Backwater BC must upgrade its transportation corridors.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10925862/white-rock-bc-landslide-amtrak-service-seattle/
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Amtrak-cascades-train-Vancouver-Seattle-Portland
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amtrak-cascades-train-vancouver-seattle-portland-return-september
Someday, all 3 cities will have better Amtrak links.
Monday, June 7, 2021
Friday, January 1, 2021
Friday, February 24, 2017
university-city-redevelopment-philadelphia
http://www.som.com/projects/philadelphia_30th_street_station_district_plan
http://media.amtrak.com/2017/01/30th-street-station-district-plan-wins-prestigious-national-award/
http://www.phillydistrict30.com/
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Philadelphia+30th+Street+Station+District+Plan&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiewNezqqjSAhVO62MKHZgcCYcQsAQIUg&biw=1280&bih=667
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Monday, August 31, 2015
The Regional George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project
Monday, April 28, 2014
NYC 185m-tunnel-leads-nowhere-for-now
The 800-foot-long, 35-foot-deep concrete trench could someday lead to two new commuter rail tunnels under the Hudson River to New Jersey, if the billions needed to build them ever materialize.
The access tunnel is expected to be completed in fall 2015.
Currently, there are two tunnels, opened in 1910, between New York's Penn Station and Newark, N.J., and they are unable to accommodate any more trains. They also flooded during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Any kind of breakdown or glitch in the tunnels can lead to huge delays for the 250,000 people who use Penn Station every day to ride NJ Transit and Amtrak.
"There's an urgent need to expand capacity between New York and New Jersey," says Craig Schulz, spokesman for Amtrak, whose trains serving the Northeast corridor between Washington and Boston are often packed, with ridership growing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_to_the_Region's_Core, http://www.tstc.org/arc
https://www.google.ca/search?q=ARC%2C+or+Access+to+the+Region%27s+Core&oq=ARC%2C+or+Access+to+the+Region%27s+Core&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.966j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8