Amtrak won't say whether it will make public its criteria for picking a contractor for its Trumpified Penn Station revamp.

Five months after Penn Station czar Andy Byford promised New Yorkers a “top-to-bottom transformation of every aspect of Penn Station,” most of the options to overhaul the nation’s busiest rail hub seem the same as they were before the feds took over the project last year.

Amtrak, which the Trump administration put in charge of overhauling Manhattan’s Penn Station, will ask New Jersey and New York to help finance the renovation of North America’s busiest train depot.

Amtrak has released a shortlist of three consortia to be considered for the renovation of New York’s Penn Station. A post on Amtrak’s procurement portal as of Tuesday, Jan. 20, provides a list of three groups and their lead developers: Grand Penn Partners [Macquarie] Penn Forward Now [Fengate] Penn Transformation Partners [Halmar]

Amtrak has not released a cost estimate for the Penn Station rebuild, but previous planning studies and public commentary have cited figures upward of $6 billion for various redevelopment concepts, but officials have not tied the current procurement to a defined budget or scope-based cost range.

Ten months after Amtrak scaled back its Empire Service between Penn Station and Albany-Rensselaer to accommodate ongoing repair work in two of the four East River Tunnels, Hochul announced that the intercity passenger rail company "will be restoring all suspended or combined" trains on the route beginning in early March.