Talk:Empire Corridor

430 miles?
Google says 290 miles. Someone please correct or clarify this.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=buffalo,ny&daddr=Albany,ny&sll=40.568375,-74.440202&sspn=0.011491,0.018711&ie=UTF8&ll=42.374778,-74.32251&spn=5.721131,9.580078&z=7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dministrator (talk • contribs) 16:50, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know how Amtrak uses the term "Empire Corridor" (paragraph 1), but, as the term is used by the Federal Railroad Administration in describing the designated high-speed rail corridor (paragraph 2), the route goes from Buffalo→Rochester→Syracuse→Utica→Albany→New York City, which totals 439 miles. -Matjamoe (talk) 21:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Which railroad?
New York Central or which one/s?--Manfariel (talk) 21:33, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Note on HSR
The current highest speed is a brief 110 mph south of Albany. Very brief. The best average time from Rochester station is about 7 hours, as a reference. Can be much more with delays. If the trains could hold the 110 mph speed the whole way, still only higher speed rail, but more sustained, the time would be about four hours, with stops. Nearly halving time, without an increase in top speeds that are already acquired, and without going all out HSR mega-project. Many parts of the track aren't particularly curvy, so it's not inconceivable, it's really just the FRA speed designation, which go by sleeper/tie type, rail specs, ballast, etc. Nothing galactic.

It's also a bit misleading to have a full paragraph that's a sentence saying it's a "designated HSR corridor", makes it sound like it already is considered HSR, perhaps just by the brief 110 mph top speed, not that it's just a top eligible corridor. B137 (talk) 06:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm hoping to tag onto this instead of creating a new section. I have done lots of googling, but haven't found much for a source on what the speeds are west of Albany. I know the second track between Schenectady and Albany opened this past summer, but I'm not sure the MAS of that. I know south of Albany, trains regularly run at 110, it looks like between milepost 124.3 and 141.1. I can easily find a source for south of Albany, but what about north and west of it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daybeers (talk • contribs) 17:56, 9 February 2018 (UTC)