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Harry Reid International in Las Vegas. The JANET 737-600 is a dead giveaway.

The Superliner Is are the last cars Pullman-Standard ever built, dating back to the very early 80s for the youngest ones. The Bombardier-built Superliner IIs are about fifteen or so years younger.

Nah, 2153 is already scheduled to take several minutes longer than 2151 with the existing fleet.

Looks like it's 1x daily.

No. Making Boylston accessible is not that hard, especially compared to the really complicated stations. It's simply that it's complicated and expensive enough for a station that lightly used that literally every other station in the Central Subway (and all of the heavy rail stations apart from...

I'm guessing, but I don't think it would be in the same universe as anything 'cheap' to build an entire new station in a 128-year-old tunnel. Not to mention it would be extraordinarily disruptive unless you shut down at least significant portions of the main trunk of the Central Subway during...

The CR platform was basically out of service for years, and I don't think they did much to fix it up when they put it back in service for one of the big recent-ish OL shutdowns. I don't think they intended to keep it open after the OL was back, but people wanted it so they kept it. For years the...

I think it might even be less than that from Park's southern entrance. Plus you don't even have to cross so much as a single street, you can practically see Boylston from Park. It's also the lowest-ridership of all the Central Subway stations served by more than one GL branch, presumably in...

Weirdly, in the second picture the purple label looks like it dead-ends at the base of the arch near the escalators to the bus station (in the second picture, in front of the construction fencing), while the label is clearly denoting fare gates in front of the elevator access to the bus station...

I think the article is mistaken. Until they stopped printing them, the Lake Shore Limited schedules invariably listed Worcester as a discharge-only stop on the eastbound Boston section (train 448) but not a receiving-only stop on westbound train 449. Meaning that from the schedule it at least...

Pan Am Southern is half-owned by CSX and half NS. Or, at least it was, I didn't think that had changed. Still true that CSX doesn't directly own the PAS tracks.

Weren't some of those filled in at some point when the LRVs came, to deal with the extra weight? I'd swear I read that somewhere (though it'd be nice if I could remember where).

Pretty sure she still has the same ten days, but the bill is just dead if she doesn't sign it. (Also known as a pocket veto, mainly a constitutional quirk because the legislature having adjourned means she couldn't return the bill - a normal veto - even if she wanted to.)

I think it's a higher standard, but maybe it should be. That might depend on, practically speaking, whether southern/western-originating riders would be significantly better-off time-wise taking that transfer versus transferring downtown. (Northern end riders would be way better off going Orange...

Might be Illustrator having trouble rasterizing the lower-case "r"s on export. The angled terminals of the lower-case R in Arial don't play very nice with adjacent letters, especially at small sizes, and I think having to rasterize that text is making the problem worse. My commute used to run...