Recent content by BosMaineiac

Yes. The Readville facility will be for diesel locomotive repair, much like BET on the north side. With the severing of the grand junction during this project, it looks like a south side diesel facility will be entirely necessary (unfortunately). Widett is not planned to have the same...

https://www.pressherald.com/2024/04/19/portlands-amtrak-station-may-move-from-thompsons-point/ (Sorry if it’s paywalled) Interesting to read that most of the passengers who were asked said their biggest concern was parking. In general, this isn’t the goal of relocating the station at all. Most...

According to the article, Fred Salvucci convinced her that the layover tracks were unnecessary. Pretty cool to see that he still has sway like that.

How did it go?

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/maine-legislature-votes-down-study-of-portland-bangor-passenger-service/#:~:text=The%20news%20site%20reports%20that,the%20population%20to%20support%20it. Looks like this flew under the radar but disappointing nonetheless. While I agree a Bangor...

I think it’s time top officials at least start floating the idea of a full harbor barrier

Not one mention of the actual Freeport station in that article. They also seem to blame it being somewhat empty on the fact that it’s set back from Main st… I find that a little hard to believe. I think the new owners should focus on bringing in some bars and restaurants in addition to locally...

Beautiful work, as always! Quick question: with the revival of the A branch, is the 57 necessary? I could see a short-turned bus pinging between Watertown and Oak Sq (if the A terminates at Oak), but would it really be necessary to have a surface transitway on Comm for it? Not saying it's a bad...

I’ve also experienced this, but usually from Blandford to Harvard Ave

Once in a while the Downeaster takes a detour along the haverhill/reading line instead of crossing over to the Lowell line on the wildcat branch. I’m not sure why the train you’re referring to was detouring, but it’s usually because of scheduled track work that creates constraints for the T...

I think you're assuming that the BL Charles crossing would need to remain on the same alignment as the Longfellow. There's plenty of room to the north of Charles/MGH to hypothetically build an incline to the required depth to get under the river and one that also ties into the BL station there...

Do you think that tips the scales for a blue line extension westward via Cambridge over Kenmore? Or do you think an urban ring-regional rail connection at Sullivan could pick up a lot of Cambridge-bound traffic from the north side? Maybe even with an additional UR-RR connection at east Somerville

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/31/metro/mbta-stop-names-bpl/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results Some witty names on here. Seriously, though, they renamed Magoun Square to Winter Hill, shouldn’t Gilman Square get that name? Anyways, I think that would be a great name change for Gilman. FWIW...

Yes, I agree, the demographics on this board certainly don’t reflect the actual demographics of Boston

My bad, I misunderstood what you were saying reading it as the opposite of what you meant. Thanks for the clarification, although just because people on the board don’t specifically say what they do doesn’t mean they don’t work/learn in a field that requires you to be in-person.