Ohhh, you know I am going to be waiting to read this study on rail capacity. So many in this forum said it couldn't be done or wouldn't be done (even the trolls jumped in on the discussion). Soon we wll know one way or the other the projected costs, current line capacity and potential infrastructure improvements to at least Pueblo (not sure when if ever we will get it to Denver but I think Denver is the long-term goal here)......
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/04/21-colorado-passenger-service
It will be interesting to how access to the Denver station is worked out. What say, MC?
MC, before Amtrak, was the plant in Denver remotely controlled?
Some passengers wonder, in my presence, why we have to back into the station. I explain the matter to them--and also tell them why we proceed so slowly with stops (for switch alignment) and how the conductor on board continually tells the engineer how many car lengths he can see ahead.
Sometimes I tell how it was when the San Francisco train stopped in Cheyenne--the coach passengers rode backwards between Denver and Cheyenne.
On the matter of changing ends with the engine, from the spring of 1968 until the Southern stopped using the Terminal Station in Atlanta, the engine was run around the train there and the coach seats were turned--to avoid the backup move, which used a switch engine to take the train back to the junction with the mainline or to bring the train into the station from that junction..
Johnny
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