Passenger Trains > FRA issues new OTP rules for passenger trains

Here is Amtrak's press release, which includes a link to the 32-pg document that is published in the Federal Register:
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Andy

This will take some time to study all 32 pages of the FRA rule, to find out what the new Rule really amounts to. 

Amtrak's press release, disappointingly, is basically public relations boilerplate that says nothing.

Sounds clear enough to me...

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

The AAR's prior litigation challenged the process of the OTP rule-making on non-delegation grounds and other issues. Now that the rule has been formally issued, the AAR can litigate the rule itself. I do not expect the AAR to simply roll over, as the Amtrak press release suggests.

Paul Wilson
Arlington, VA

The best thing Amtrak can do for OT performance is to get its equipment into GOOD repair.  And do not send out LD trains with one engine.  

With the three day per week schedule and Chargers replacing some P42 units in Michigan and Illinois, Amtrak should be awash in locomotives.

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Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> With the three day per week schedule and Chargers
> replacing some P42 units in Michigan and Illinois,
> Amtrak should be awash in locomotives.
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> Posted from Android

The MI and IL P42s are stored in New Orleans. 

sethamtrak Wrote:
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> Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> > With the three day per week schedule and
> Chargers
> > replacing some P42 units in Michigan and
> Illinois,
> > Amtrak should be awash in locomotives.
> >
> > Posted from Android
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> The MI and IL P42s are stored in New Orleans. 

Thanks.

No need to repair them, or use them on single unit trains.

I wonder if BNSF will renew its requirement for winter trains on the High Line to have threelocomotives?

On 2019, none of the LD routes came close to meeting this standard.

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/HostRailroadReports/Amtrak-2019-Host-Railroad-Report-Card-FAQs.pdf

Shouldn't be hard to do on a modern Precision Scheduled Railroad, right?

TAW

Is Amtrak an AAR member?

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joemvcnj Wrote:
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> Is Amtrak an AAR member?
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 https://www.aar.org/about-us/aar-members/

MEKoch Wrote:
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> The best thing Amtrak can do for OT performance is
> to get its equipment into GOOD repair.  And do
> not send out LD trains with one engine.  

Good luck tying to convince Chicago!