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In lieu of our usual Control Point (CP) Sundays edition this morning, we have an updated Transformative Rail Vision Map ready (google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…), including MTL-TOR HFR, Ethan Allen to BUR, Vermonter to MTL & a couple glaring gaps: Big Sky Explorer to Sandpoint & KNX-CHT.
You know what we haven't heard about in a while?
MARC service to Hagerstown (likely via the former B&O corridor from Brunswick Jct).🛤️
Bus service connects Hagerstown to BWI Airport & the MARC Penn Line (1 daily RT, except SAT) & Shady Grove on the Red Line (3 weekday RTs)
I know plenty of others shared this news last week, but wanted to also do so on this handle. All public funding is now in place to move forward with the 13.5-mile service. But Brightline-Florida East Coast legal issues are the next roadblock to overcome.
wlrn.org/transportation/2026…
ODOT's wishlist for Cascades service improvements in Oregon:
*layover track in Eugene
*second track south of Portland
*improvements near Salem
*increased Eugene-Portland service from 2 RTs to 6
ijpr.org/environment-energy-…
I’m reissuing this cold take for Halloween 2026; nearly all Trunk Or Treat events are outreach events for various community entities (churches, schools, programs) rather than replacing traditional Trick Or Treating on Halloween night due to the built environment. 🎃 (more 👇)
While this is no surprise to anyone following California HSR, the upcoming contract formality brings some new details on the order for the initial operating segment and full fleet build-out.
railwaygazette.com/high-spee…
I know this is a trains account but I fly a lot for my job. And I don’t get how so many people could care less what’s happening out the window. Yesterday, I saw a rainbow over the Rincon Mountains leaving Tucson and looked down on my neighborhood landing at BTR. Best part of 🛫🛬
I have a modest proposal that will produce pure joy for a few million people & entertainment for millions more:
Combine the Bills offense & Vikings defense for 2 seasons. Twin Cities & Buffalo flip a coin for who gets first season home games.
Buffasota Viking Bills. 🏈
Both teams have lost 4 Super Bowls, and won zero. Both places get tons of snow, have light-rail systems and love hockey. Delta kills it on the MSP-BUF market for a couple years.
Hello from Union Pacific’s Nogales Subdivision on the south side of Tucson. As the name implies, the line connects Nogales, MEX with the former Southern Pacific main line (Lordsburg Subdivision) in Tucson. Ferromex has operating rights for cross-border traffic.🛤️
Nice to see this dispute over the purchase of this rail line in the Lackawanna Valley, connecting Pittston & Wilkes-Barre, has been resolved fairly quickly so Reading & Northern can acquire the trackage.🛤️
The sale of Luzerne County’s rail line to Reading and Northern Railroad can move forward after the railroad companies reached a settlement in a lawsuit over the deal. fox56.com/news/local/settlem…
Just a refresher that this account does not engage in any measure of rankings, cage matches, bashing, etc between cities, often geared for engagement farming. All cities can be improved and many have such a long way to go. And preferences are fine & real. But no places are bad.🌇
RAIL Magazine retweeted
LA's newest Light Rail line starts construction.
The new 6.5 mile Metro light rail line will be located in the middle of Ventura Boulevard from Pacoima to Van Nuys. Construction is expected to be completed in 2031.
la.streetsblog.org/2026/10/1… – at Baltimore, MD
So, my read here is more capacity at Springfield Union Station for East-West Rail to Boston (and possibly to Albany) is unquestionably good. But traffic to the North to northwestern Mass, Vermont & Quebec still requires reverse moves (easier with Airos).
mass.streetsblog.org/2026/10…
While this obligation of $550 million for the S Line project is positive, it is not any additional funding to the $1 billion grant announced by Sec. Pete in the waning days of the Biden Admin. It is only for the Raleigh-Wake Forest segment of the project.
aashtojournal.transportation…
After much delay, FRA is finally releasing some intercity passenger rail grants under the Corridor ID program of several years of inaction. Inclusion of this Hiawatha extension to Madison is not surprising but certainly needed…
jsonline.com/story/money/rea…
Went into my wayback folders to dig out these photos from my 2003 visit to the Montreal Metro. It would be a little less than another decade until the Bombardier-Alstom MPM-10 ("Azur") fleet debuted on the system.
