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West Virginia passenger rail study to cost $400,000
I would love to see a daily Cardinal also. I would also like to see them make it a Superliner again, or include a dome. A dome on the rear could be added and removed at Washington, DC if it won’t clear the Northeast Corridor.
Would love to a daily Cardinal, plus a dome car. It would be great to go back to WV or Cincinnati to visit family, etc.
The Buckingham Branch Railroad recently stated that they don’t have the capacity to run the Cardinal as a daily train.
The study should consider capacity issues and include documentation of the costs to run the Cardinal daily. Amtrak should also consider the cost and revenues of adding a St. Louis section, or at least a bus connection. Ideally, I would like to see a Cincinnati-Louisville-St. Louis section. A Richmond section with through cars to Florida would be nice also.
I presume this includes the necessary work on the Buckingham Branch which I’ve understood to be a major stumbling block in making the Cardinal daily, which it badly needs to be.
The cardinal needs simply to be a daily train. Either support the train or get rid of it. I enjoy riding it but the scheduling of a trip is almost impossible given the schedule that it runs. We all need to ring our politican’s phones off the hook and tell them to get on board.
Rode the train with Superliner, but that is when it ended in DC and not NYC thus now requiring viewliner.
Superliners do still run on occasion on the Cardinal. I caught one this year. But you never know when the next one will be.