The 70 mile (114 km) long route runs parallel to the Southeast Florida coast and has 18 stations along its length. A typical station on the route is composed of two side platforms connected by an overpass and two tracks, one for southbound trains and the other for northbound trains
Ehh, pass. The TSC version was very meh and boring, and along with the Tri-Rail licensing issues. I just really don't see happening at all.
We can always hope. It's in a different region. I know licensing is a thing but I can still hope can't I. One thing I don't know is how busy it is but if it's a route that has a decent amount of services then it'll be worth making it.
Amtrak only runs the Silver Star and Silver Meteor. That means 4 mainline services. CSX also doesn’t run a whole lot of freight down to Miami anymore. I’ve heard they only run like 1 train a day now. This route needs Tri-Rail to give it a reasonable service count
So you’re implying that all routes without steep 2% gradients are bad. I see how it is. Definitely don’t have enough of those. Cough cough clinchfield, SPG, Sherman, Tharandter Rampe, MSB, RRO. Yeah let’s add 10 more of those
Brightline and FEC are needed for this route. We'd get fast passenger services and heavy freight trains. Locos for this route would be Brightline Siemens SCB40 Chargers with Siemens Ventura Passenger Cars, FEC LNG-fuelled ES44C4s with LNG fuel cars, FEC GP40-2s/-3s, and FEC SD40-2s. Freight cars would include rock hoppers, intermodal well cars, and other freight cars.
