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I'm pretty sure that "downeaster" also refers to a type of ship, but I do not yet have a good source for it. I've heard it referred to as such in the Billy Joel song Downeaster Alexa, and a Google search yields a few ships (such as the Franconia and the Indiana) that are supposedly of that style. When I get more info, I'll put it up at Downeaster (ship). -- zandperl 23:41, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be a good idea to change the title of the article to "Amtrak Downeaster" or "Downeaster passenger train" or something along those lines. The word "downeaster" does have other meanings, especially before December 2001.
— BMRR 20:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree that we should change the page name to "Amtrak Downeaster", in my experience, whenever searching for the downeaster on google news or YouTube I always type Amtrak Downeaster to find what I'm looking for. Plus the website is [amtrakdowneaster.com] and the logo says "Amtrak Downeaster". I just think it sounds better, which is subjective and opinionated. -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 04:04, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
The article should include some information about NNEPRA—especially the fact that the Downeaster is funded, managed, and promoted primarily by NNEPRA, not Amtrak.
Some history would be nice too, e.g. the 12+ years that various groups spent advocating for the service and fighting with Guilford to make it happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BMRR ( talk • contribs) 14:46, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the list of stops link to the towns themselves rather than to the Amtrak stations? There's no earthly reason for there to be an article on the train platform in Exeter, for example, but there's a perfectly good article on the town already. -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 20:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
If the service to Portland becomes successful enough to make a profit (or at least to break even), are there any thoughts of expanding the service to Bangor or beyond—or even into Canada? 66.234.220.195 ( talk) 21:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Where will the funding for the service come from in 2009 and beyond? It's my understanding that the money simply isn't there, unless Maine expands its funding considerably; Massachusetts and New Hampshire contribute nothing to it, and there is very little political support in New Hampshire for subsidizing the service. 76.21.8.213 ( talk) 07:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in helping me improve and expand the article to potentially create a Good Article see grades Wikipedia:Quality_scale#Grades? I have been working on the intro, but I think the history could be vastly expanded to included the efforts of Trainriders Northeast which started in 1989. Any other ideas? Maybe so new photos, formatting? -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 04:13, 6 November 2012 (UTC) See also: WP:GA WP:MOS
Does the new segment between Portland and Brunswick still run on former Boston and Maine Railroad tracks, or is that the Maine Central Railroad? ------- User:DanTD ( talk) 13:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I was thinking of combining the two sections into one, because these two statistics are often included together and correlated. I am waiting for more in-depth FY info to be published, although I have been able to get updated ridership stats via email correspondence. Any thoughts? -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 02:54, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( non-admin closure) Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 13:54, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Downeaster → Downeaster (train) – This doesn't appear to be the primary topic of the term "Downeaster". The page views are a little hard to parse as most other "Downeaster" topics are covered at articles with alternate names ( Down Easter (ship), Down East, Bay Breeze, etc.) but it doesn't look like the Amtrak train is "much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined" to be the topic sought. On Google Books, Downeaster train returns fewer hits than Downeaster Maine and Downeaster ship. Downeaster should point to the dab page Down Easter. Cúchullain t/ c 16:15, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
After the above page move, Downeaster was redirected to this article. But it would be better to redirect it to the disambiguation page Down Easter - and, in fact, I'm about to do that. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 16:06, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
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I was thinking of moving the coverage of the layover facility from "Plans" to "History", and consolidating it into a couple sentences. I realize that it was controversial and received plenty of coverage, but the twists and turns probably aren't all that important in the long run. Mackensen (talk) 02:07, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
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I added a source stating that NNEPRA states they had 534,000 passengers in 2018, which was a record, but statistics given here for other years are higher. Is this due to fiscal years vs. calendar year? Or some other reason? 331dot ( talk) 11:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
An extension proposal is planned for the Downeaster to serve Rockland. The line's route map should show the proposed extension(s) of the line. [1] 98.115.168.68 ( talk) 17:09, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
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The seating formats 2x1 and 2x2 are used in the article but never defined. Their meaning may be obvious to a railfan, but not to an typical reader. As far as I can tell, they mean respectively, in each row of seating there are "two forward-facing seats on one side of the (off-center) aisle and one on the other side" and "two forward-facing seats on each side of the (centered) aisle." I think this needs some kind of clarification or definition or link to a place where they're defined because they are not commonly used terms and their meanings are not intuitively obvious. 69.161.125.36 ( talk) 16:13, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
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I'm pretty sure that "downeaster" also refers to a type of ship, but I do not yet have a good source for it. I've heard it referred to as such in the Billy Joel song Downeaster Alexa, and a Google search yields a few ships (such as the Franconia and the Indiana) that are supposedly of that style. When I get more info, I'll put it up at Downeaster (ship). -- zandperl 23:41, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps it would be a good idea to change the title of the article to "Amtrak Downeaster" or "Downeaster passenger train" or something along those lines. The word "downeaster" does have other meanings, especially before December 2001.
— BMRR 20:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree that we should change the page name to "Amtrak Downeaster", in my experience, whenever searching for the downeaster on google news or YouTube I always type Amtrak Downeaster to find what I'm looking for. Plus the website is [amtrakdowneaster.com] and the logo says "Amtrak Downeaster". I just think it sounds better, which is subjective and opinionated. -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 04:04, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
The article should include some information about NNEPRA—especially the fact that the Downeaster is funded, managed, and promoted primarily by NNEPRA, not Amtrak.
Some history would be nice too, e.g. the 12+ years that various groups spent advocating for the service and fighting with Guilford to make it happen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BMRR ( talk • contribs) 14:46, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the list of stops link to the towns themselves rather than to the Amtrak stations? There's no earthly reason for there to be an article on the train platform in Exeter, for example, but there's a perfectly good article on the town already. -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 20:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
If the service to Portland becomes successful enough to make a profit (or at least to break even), are there any thoughts of expanding the service to Bangor or beyond—or even into Canada? 66.234.220.195 ( talk) 21:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Where will the funding for the service come from in 2009 and beyond? It's my understanding that the money simply isn't there, unless Maine expands its funding considerably; Massachusetts and New Hampshire contribute nothing to it, and there is very little political support in New Hampshire for subsidizing the service. 76.21.8.213 ( talk) 07:35, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in helping me improve and expand the article to potentially create a Good Article see grades Wikipedia:Quality_scale#Grades? I have been working on the intro, but I think the history could be vastly expanded to included the efforts of Trainriders Northeast which started in 1989. Any other ideas? Maybe so new photos, formatting? -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 04:13, 6 November 2012 (UTC) See also: WP:GA WP:MOS
Does the new segment between Portland and Brunswick still run on former Boston and Maine Railroad tracks, or is that the Maine Central Railroad? ------- User:DanTD ( talk) 13:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I was thinking of combining the two sections into one, because these two statistics are often included together and correlated. I am waiting for more in-depth FY info to be published, although I have been able to get updated ridership stats via email correspondence. Any thoughts? -- Bubblecuffer ( talk) 02:54, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( non-admin closure) Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga ( talk • mail) 13:54, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
Downeaster → Downeaster (train) – This doesn't appear to be the primary topic of the term "Downeaster". The page views are a little hard to parse as most other "Downeaster" topics are covered at articles with alternate names ( Down Easter (ship), Down East, Bay Breeze, etc.) but it doesn't look like the Amtrak train is "much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined" to be the topic sought. On Google Books, Downeaster train returns fewer hits than Downeaster Maine and Downeaster ship. Downeaster should point to the dab page Down Easter. Cúchullain t/ c 16:15, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
After the above page move, Downeaster was redirected to this article. But it would be better to redirect it to the disambiguation page Down Easter - and, in fact, I'm about to do that. - DavidWBrooks ( talk) 16:06, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
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I was thinking of moving the coverage of the layover facility from "Plans" to "History", and consolidating it into a couple sentences. I realize that it was controversial and received plenty of coverage, but the twists and turns probably aren't all that important in the long run. Mackensen (talk) 02:07, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
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I added a source stating that NNEPRA states they had 534,000 passengers in 2018, which was a record, but statistics given here for other years are higher. Is this due to fiscal years vs. calendar year? Or some other reason? 331dot ( talk) 11:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
An extension proposal is planned for the Downeaster to serve Rockland. The line's route map should show the proposed extension(s) of the line. [1] 98.115.168.68 ( talk) 17:09, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
References
The seating formats 2x1 and 2x2 are used in the article but never defined. Their meaning may be obvious to a railfan, but not to an typical reader. As far as I can tell, they mean respectively, in each row of seating there are "two forward-facing seats on one side of the (off-center) aisle and one on the other side" and "two forward-facing seats on each side of the (centered) aisle." I think this needs some kind of clarification or definition or link to a place where they're defined because they are not commonly used terms and their meanings are not intuitively obvious. 69.161.125.36 ( talk) 16:13, 18 March 2023 (UTC)