Eastern Railroad Discussion > Amtrak's Paradise, PA station

what ever happened with the proposed Amtrak station for Paradise, PA. I believe it was approved in 2002 to be built by 2004.

There's still a lumberyard across the tracks from where Strasburg RR makes the turn, so it can't be a shortage of materials....

John R -- CP Spring
Carlisle, PA

Probably all the silly-ass Federal Regulations.

After all, they will have to do an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) in order to build a station. Major carbon footprint and major environmental impact on the Pennsylvania Buzzard.

Then comes the FRA regulations on how to build the station. What height are the platforms. Everything has to handicapped accessible. Will they have to build an overpass for pedestrians to get to the other track? Special lighting, elevators, etc.

All this means that a simple piece of asphalt about 100 feet long, on each side of tracks, will cost $4M.

Well said MEKoch! You just about covered it all. It seems you can't put up a new dog house these days without a long drawn out expensive EIS and a fight with the environmentalist extremest wackos.

MEKoch Wrote:
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> Probably all the silly-ass Federal Regulations.
>
> After all, they will have to do an EIS
> (Environmental Impact Statement) in order to build
> a station. Major carbon footprint and major
> environmental impact on the Pennsylvania Buzzard.
>
> Then comes the FRA regulations on how to build the
> station. What height are the platforms.
> Everything has to handicapped accessible. Will
> they have to build an overpass for pedestrians to
> get to the other track? Special lighting,
> elevators, etc.
>
> All this means that a simple piece of asphalt
> about 100 feet long, on each side of tracks, will
> cost $4M.

MEKoch Wrote:
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> All this means that a simple piece of asphalt
> about 100 feet long, on each side of tracks, will
> cost $4M.

It's my understanding that $4M will be the cost of
the study alone. The asphalt will be extra.

/Mitch

And the local Amish could put one up in part of a day -- I'm sure that station would at least have some character to it.

John R -- CP Spring
Carlisle, PA

Two raised platforms sufficient for a seven car train, an overhead crossing with elevators on either side, and parking for 100 cars. No platform or connection with the Strasburg is contemplated in my estimate.

Excluding land, I'd say $30mn wold be on the low side.

How many passengers per day, year, etc is this station supposed to serve?