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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
The whole idea is that the state wants to contract someone other than Amtrak to handle trains.
I imagine that the one seat trip to NYC would attempted to be preserved, but I don't quite see how that'd happen. Maybe this is relying on a resumption of NJT West Trenton Service?
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Amtrak is kind of bad at playing nice with others but what the State really needs is heavy capital investment into its rail network including an all-new HSR alignment liking Pittsburgh and Harrisburg and an all-new medium-speed one between the Lehigh Valley and Scranton (the existing one through the Lehigh Gorge is really, really, really, really, really bad). SEPTA is even worse at Amtrak at providing that. So I agree that forcing SEPTA rather than Amtrak to run the Keystone Service and the Pennsylvanian would be a bad move in the short and medium terms.
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