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#1 Source of electric generating capacity by county & #1 source of generated electricity by state
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 6 days ago
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House T&I Committee approves BUILD America 250 Act for Surface Transportation Reauthorization
masstransitmag.comu/RWREmpireBuilder — 8 days ago
▲ 452 r/Amtrak
Amtrak ridership increases by 305K rides in May
**EDIT: Sorry about the title, this is actually data for April.
Key Points from the April report.
-Amtrak added 107K rides on the NEC, 178K on state routes, and 20K on long distance routes. They also have a new unofficial record of 35,591,000 rides annually.
-Operating margin improved by $7.4 million to -$490.7 million annually. All 3 route groups improved financially.
-Capacity began to increase again, but ridership still improved at a faster rate. 56 million passenger miles added vs 43 million seat miles added. Load factor up to 54.87%.
-State supported routes now fully recovered to 2019 levels. Long distance at 98% recovery.
Top Ridership Gains
Northeast Regional- 110,600
Pacific Surfliner- 75,000
Keystone Service- 23,200
Capitol Corridor- 22,100
Mardi Gras Service- 13,200 (new service)
Cascades- 11,000
Top Ridership Losses
DC-Richmond NER- 13,800
DC-Norfolk NER- 9,600
Lake Shore Limited- 3,200
Acela- 2,800
Cardinal- 1,900
**Virginia NER's affected by Long Bridge disruptions
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 11 days ago
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Anyone want a ticket to the Indy 500?
I’ve got an extra ticket to the Indy 500 I won’t be needing if anyone wants to use it.
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 20 days ago
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Updated estimates on contested races for 2026 state legislative elections.
A lot of states have gone through primary filing since I made my first post 2 months ago, so I thought I'd share the updated version. This is looking at how many legislative seats each party is contesting in each state. This only includes states that have finished primary filing, and are subject to change based on write-in candidates & removals from the ballot.
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 1 month ago
Ridership & financial data for US rail transit, 2024
Data is from the FTA’s 2024 agency profiles, and is for each agency’s 2024 fiscal year. Grouped by mode.
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 1 month ago
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An in case people ask, the revenue column is only counting fare revenues, so not including state support payments. Also, Rev/PM and Exp/PM are calculating revenue and expenses per passenger mile.
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 1 month ago
▲ 878 r/Amtrak
Key Details
-Yes, Amtrak turned an operating profit of $23.7 million, a $96.8 million improvement over March 2025. This was driven by 2 items: a $21.5 million increase in ticket revenue and a $60.6 million decrease in advertising and sales expenses.
-Looking at network-specific finances, the routes generated $246 million in ticket revenue (without state support payments) and $243.6 million in expenses. The NEC ran a cost recovery of 174%, with state routes at 61% and long distance at 72%.
-The NEC added 148K rides, state routes added 281K, and long distance routes decreased by 17K.
-Capacity remains an underlying problem. Passenger miles increased by 32 million while seat miles decreased by 24 million, pushing the load factor up to a new high of 54.6%. Train miles decreased again, pushing annual train miles to a 2-year low.
-Annual operating deficit is down to $498.1 million, a new post-Covid low.
u/RWREmpireBuilder — 1 month ago
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u/RWREmpireBuilder — 1 month ago