NYC Congestion Pricing Canceled, VIARail Heritage Trainset, NS 4822 | This Month on the Railroad

There are so many vandalized locos on Csx now NS

Canning congestion pricing was a stupid decision, and I don't see Hochul staying governor of New York after this.

I know a lot of the "urbanist" community online has been up in arms over the failure of congestion pricing, but it is a genuine minoritarian position here. two thirds of New Yorkers oppose it and if they put it on the ballot I'm sure it'll fail. The MTA is rather horribly run due to numerous factors (austerity being a big one). But people have to stop overlooking the A. general incompetence of the MTA management (not even gonna get into the work culture in the lower echelons) and B. the hundreds of millions lost to far evasion. Seriously, the DeBlasio years have been a disaster in terms of civic function and social cohesion, activists insisting these are issues of "poverty" and not anti social behavior being incentivized by lax policing have warped "urbanists" views. I've been abroad, most well functioning mass transit systems do not tolerate the kind of rot that exists in the MTA. We're an embarrassment.

Sorta glad the congestion thing didn't go through since that would have drove up prices of goods in the city

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This Month on the Railroad: My end was… greatly exaggerated.

I am furious about congestion pricing getting canceled. It will have bad effects across the whole city and it would have made my life way better. You'll be mad at first but then get used to it. New York is not meant to be driven into.

So metro north’s sc42 order are suspended

Just for future reference, Hochul is pronounced Hoh-Kuhl

So little backstory for the baltimore red line: It's long delay has a very important factor. The line came from a proposed set of routes to be added in baltimore in 2002 and was the only one to make any move forward. Not sure when the project officially started but they got through all phases (local funding, state funding, etc) and officially got authorization to begin construction when Hogan (at the time governor of Maryland) nixed the project calling it a boondoggle and instead adding a new set of bus routes. It was re-greenlit by Moore (current govenor) a year or so ago but they have to go through all the phases again because development has gotten in the way of the original planned route (in other words, there are new buildings that sit right in the original planned path of the line). I believe the line is planned to open at some point in the 2030s (maryland MTA is very, very slow with everything they do) but I believe it would've opened this year had it not been nixed in 2015.

why are yall acting like congestion pricing is a good thing??? yea it would've been good for public transit but in upstate ny and other parts of the nyc metro area its very car dependent and a lot of people can't afford a train ticket or a subway ticket and driving is the only way they can get around and do u live in the nyc metro area? if no, then don't complain about a bad thing not going into effect.

Honesty , SEPTA should take Caltran's lead and buy some Staddler KISS EMUs to replace the Silverliners. They'd be a perfect fit for us here in Philly!

Also, what’s been happening in June:

1. Dierks Lumber steam locomotive no. 207 has officially launched their GoFundMe page for folks to donate, so it can return to operation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

2. Southern Pacific steam locomotive 2479 received its first hydo test

3. Flying Scotsman has a new operator than plans to have it be on display for 30 days, 15 heritage railway visits, and 20 mainline excursions every year until 2032.

4. Progress is being made on restoring Oregon Rail & Navigation 197 to operation in Portland, Oregon

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Great to see another episode! Thanks for covering the many heritage unit updates, and I wasn't aware that the last single level cab car was retired already. I feel such an event should have got at least some sort of media coverage seeing how iconic they are to the Boston region. Also, Congestion Pricing being paysed indefinitely and its implications is just too depressing for me to go in depth about, since I personally will be affected by the many projects that will also be paused as a result. Likewise, it is one of the worst decisions that a city could make, since it not only directly affects everyone in the greater NY area for the worst, but it also sets a bad example for other cities looking to implement something similar, all because Kongestion Kathy felt pressured by a loud voice from a small number of suburbanites who inhaled so much car fumes that they don't realize that taking public transit is the better way to go.

While I like that VIA is dipping their toes in the water for Heritage trainsets, my only gripe is how low effort the current one is, the real turbotrain was yellow and blue, not yellow and black like the heritage unit, it seems all VIA did was remove the other colors in their current livery...

The main issue with congestion pricing imo is that there wasn't a way to stop businesses from passing it on to the consumer(afaik). Businesses have been doing that for years now, but it's gotten so much easier for them after COVID and the masses actually accepts it

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THE new york governor will likely change her mind after the elections this fall. She was told by here party constituents it would be horrendous for them at the polls if she enacted congestion pricing. We will see

MARTA Stadler METRO CQ400 trains are also currently under assembly

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Congestion pricing is just wealth redistribution. Not just speaking toward new york but, in general it feels rather handsy when it comes to the pocket book. A little tooooo socialist

904 is heading to NHN for rebuild, from what I was told, NHN wants to use it for cabs

Since CRRC already built a few cars that were originally for SEPTA, could we see CRRC give those to exo?

Also this month: The Utah Transit Authority officially revealed plans to extend the FrontRunner from the current southern terminus of Provo, Utah, to Payson Utah, with stations in Springville and Spanish Fork. UTA was gven the land for this expansion years ago.

Les go. New episode

This Season on the Railroad: S0?E01

New news!

- The Richmond-Raleigh higher speed line just broke down, roughly a week ago. Maybe make a separate video on that?

- PennDOT and NJDOT working together for resoring an abandoned 1940s line (Lackawanna Cutoff) for both Amtrak and NJT, going from Scranton, PA to New York City.


-The D.O.T is investigating a possible future long distance line, going from Dallas all the way to New York City, via a freight line, the Keystone Corridor, and finally, the Northeast corridor.

4822 Unit: Moving the weight of the world
WWRF: Moving the weight of OUR world

Just saw a news story that the MBTA is planning to buy electric train sets! Unconfirmed which line though.

I can't wait for metro north sci-fi 42s!!!