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There are a lot of workers who will prefer to work from home and companies will let them because it saves them $$$$. There may be hybrid work schedules some,days in and some out. There are alot of commercial office space investors and owners who are concerned about potential vacant space.

Here is a description of the overall plan but especially transportation

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/politics ... index.html

I want to revisit the Amtrak profitability comment. No where in the world are passenger trains by governments expected to show a profit. I would like to see Biden's plan address the Gateway project in New York and more CREATE projects in Chicago rather than expand Amtrak service. I would also like t...

Just in case we have forgotten we subsidize Greyhound and Indian Trails as well as Amtrak in this state. We haven't raised the federal gas tax since 1993 which means the gas tax revenues from both trucks and cars can't pay for all the costs so the general taxpayer dollars are used to make up the dif...

A bit off track but are there funds in the plan for Chicago freight improvements and regional and shortline improvements?

An old article but just an example of how federal government hands out taxpayer dollars to other forms of transportation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christophe ... e208d86fb8

Has any of the work funded in part by the federal grant been done and if so what is the status?

Thank you.

Some photos from the Corvette Forum Ionia when the factory was AO Smith. These photos come from that online forum.

There looks like there was a coal fuel facility on the old C&O you can see it off the trial. It's a vacant lot off Bayard St. You can still remnants of the silos

Good Ionia shots 1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyIZbVDW_Tg

Thanks the auto parts was American Bumper. I think Standard Lumber was a customer as well.

Would love to hear about the customers in Ionia back then for Grand Trunk. Ionia was an interesting rail town with the C&O and Grand Trunk basically side by side through most of the mid town.

From an August 2020 Progressive RR article:

n addition to growing, Pioneer is trying to be more efficient while using fewer assets to provide reliable service. The company owns 80 locomotives but currently is operating only 35 of them.

In an article in Progressive Railroading when Brookhaven took over Pioneer they had over 80 locomotives and were using only 30. I assume they will keep some margin of locomotives over the 30 number for servicing and reserves. There is a glut of used locomotives on the market right now. Who know if B...

CN inspection train headed west by East Lansing Amtrak depot 2:32pm

Hey Steve, please see the historical questions thread. They are asking about the old C&O main line in Flint and mentioned you by name. Thanks.

I loved when the MSO had their variety of Alcos but here is a recent clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOWqbyK-46A

I don't know if the former Ludington Northern SW-8 is still there or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4rU-2jVgM

Thanks to all of those who take this videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmT5M3tuwQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkV8p2Vhfc

Another one of Scott's awesome videos that looks like it was filmed in April 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1km7m03p4wc