I'm approximately 90% certain (hopefully) that render wasn't sourced from the MBTA, since it appears to be largely AI generated - it's got the Gemini SynthID watermark, and the lead/ladder tracks look like a mess with some tracks just disappearing.
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So, I'm eating crow - this was, indeed, an official MBTA image. And even with SynthID watermarks, I'm going to walk back my position pretty far - with the cleaner version posted by the T, it's pretty evident that the trainsets are far too consistent to be AI generated, and the widett area is clearly grafted onto a base image - instead, it's perhaps more likely that AI was used to superimpose the renders onto the base aerial - see the clear/fuzzy line at the edges of the site where rendered tracks meet existing. That said, I still don't know what to make of the very derailed looking amtrak on the loop track and its "bubble" of clearer resolution.
Edit to pull in the render - marginally updated from the one upthread, including an additional building on the east side.
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I doubt it. The push-pull sets in the render include lots of single-levels, which are of course going away within the next 2 years. And it's a maintenance pain to paint and/or wrap stainless steel cars, so I doubt the bi-levels are ever going to be more decorated than they currently are (occasional paid temporary ad-wrap cars aside).
The BEMU's also aren't accurately done. One of the four cars in each set is going to be the battery pack, so they wouldn't have any windows or doors.