Talk:Louise M. Slaughter Rochester Station

Doubts about Rochester Station article

Perhaps somebody from the Rochester Metro Area can clear this up, because this link(http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/rochester.htm) makes me doubt that this article is referring to the same station. ---- DanTD 16:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I think the ridership was low because it was referring to year-to-date for 2006 (but was out of date). B137 (talk) 14:53, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Immigration Checkpoint

I'm not quite sure that the tone of this section is encyclopedic in nature...would anyone agree that it should be taken out?

The "aggressive nature" of the agents sounds more personal in nature than factual.

--Allamericanbear (talk) 13:28, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

I specifically came to the talk page to bolster support for its inclusion. I forgot it was here. It shows how much more powerless the Amtrak riders are than say the "check point deniers" (popular on youtube) in the southwest United States are, where they simply refuse the officers and eventually drive on, unsearched and unaverted to the waiting area. This is when check points are set up within the United States, not on a border crossing. It's gotten media attention. B137 (talk) 14:57, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

It is established that the border check area includes all space from the conventional border, inward by 100 miles. So, claims that there are border agent activities in the area are credible.Dogru144 (talk) 06:17, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Image of past, and future

First off, I'd like to know how this amazing image has been here for five years and never used elsewhere or been featured as a historic image with great quality in general.

Next, the new station that will look more like the intermediate Bragdon station, when it says that it will be able to "facilitate future HSR" I'm not sure what that could mean, other than high level platforms, which are already useful at current rolling stock and low speed rail. Next, the time to NY Penn is about 7 hours give or take for all the services, mostly give for delays. That could already be halved if the service could be uniformed to a steady 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), which it already attains briefly south of Albany. There has been a lot of talk about New York high speed rail that's not the NE Corridor, but upstate is not very important or thriving; however, it is on a line that connects the important and growing cities of Toronto and Chicago to NYC, the latter which takes a long curve north to go around PA mountains, the former a horseshoe around Lake Ontario. 110 is only higher-speed rail, but shows that holding a decent speed means a lot more than touting a brief top speed so misleading, that is double the average speed of the line. It is evidence that improving intercity rail does not need to be flashy 168 or 200 mph speeds attained on one amazing straightaway, as with the 150 on the NEC. B137 (talk) 08:50, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Correcting deceptive description of train frequency

The article has said that there are two trains a day of the Lake Shore Limited and so on for the other trains. This is deceptive. There is only one train in each direction. By convention, people say that there is one train a day, implying in each direction. It is illogical to need to cite the second direction as another train. Of course there is a return train. Schedules indicate "daily" with trains. Skeptics may confirm with this schedule of Amtrak: https://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/756/877/Empire-Service-Schedule-tW08-040917,0.pdf Dogru144 (talk) 06:14, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Third incarnation?

Why doesn't the 1882 NY Central station count? B137 (talk) 23:34, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

The 1882 station was down the street, not on that particular site. The 1914 station was the first on that exact site. Mo2010 (Talk) 05:04, 30 October 2017 (UTC)