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Also, infamously, B&M and Pan Am were never ever able to get railroad insurance coverage for the Hoosac after it was acquired from the Fitchburg RR in 1900. So it's always been an unusually expensive route to operate and maintain because they don't have any standard coverage for outages caused...

Given that the Hoosac Tunnel already has a long-term susceptibility to cave-ins, and the fact that the portion of Berkshires closest to Pittsfield (as opposed to North Adams) is a much more motley assortment of rock and glacial fill, I don't think base tunneling is going to be an all that...

https://media.amtrak.com/2026/05/amtraks-berkshire-flyer-returns-for-summer-service-with-expanded-weekend-trips-between-pittsfield-and-new-york-city/ Amtrak Berkshire Flyer (New York-Albany-Pittsfield) is back for the 2026 summer season after being bustituted for the entire 2025 season due to a...

What the shit kind of lame trolling hottake is this?!? :rolleyes:

Seriously, Glob? A drawn-out fluff piece on the "Man Behind The Deck" that barely mentions the giant FUBAR of a stalled development that was supposed to go on top of the deck? That was 900 words of text my braincells are never going to recoup the wasted effort of reading.

California has an almost incomprehensibly thick web of local, county, and state-level authorities that all have the power through the state's infamously permissive ballot measure system to raise their own tax revenues for specific purposes. Such that any geographical area that really really...

It's basically a mash-up of the more-or-less agreed-upon Urban Ring Grand Junction alignment and the Silver Line Allston+Longwood extension off the Phase III tunnel that was evaluated by the 2003 PMT. The latter...at least in its Silver Line form...was sort of hilariously overoptimistic on the...

We're not going to be replacing the entire loco and coach fleet in one fell swoop like this is the Red Line. Procurements and rebuilds were staggered out enough that end-of-life targets of the current fleets is spread way, way out and require multiple orders to feasibly turn over. Hell, even...

It's just nuts. Providence is already electrified. Stoughton can be electrified for cheap by building out Sharon substation. Fairmount can be electrified cheap if they'd stop making the lamest excuses in the world for not doing any of that. It's only the sparse 8 weekday RT's to Wickford...

Dude...you're buying the battery locos to run on the one fully electrified line and, so far, nowhere else. You ain't maximizing shit with pants-on-head spending decisions like that. Gah...his brain and everybody's brains immediately underneath him are absolutely cooked on this battery shit. I...

Brightline is actually consistently building new things, instead of just deferring maintenance and holding board meetings to publicly pat self on the back for deferring maintenance. That's real work, bro.🏋️‍♂️ Brightline actually has current and past executive ranks filled with proven pax...

The business model of paying down the operating deficit with ultra-long term real estate development around the stations, while soundly reasoned, really isn't compatible with the short attention span of private equity and short-term debt-shifting games therein. This end was pretty much...

Who cares if the world burns and Boston is underwater...at least I got my tax cut, amirite? 🤡

That's why Metro-North proposed building a 1-mile extension of third rail to the 25 Hz/60 Hz phase break, because the M8's can handle the over-running third rail. They bought the supplemental order of M8's specifically for this. Amtrak dragged its feet for years then ultimately said no because...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.662423/gov.uscourts.nysd.662423.1.0.pdf Amtrak sues Metro-North for blocking non-revenue movements of the Acela 2's for the past month. Includes overnight testing on the New Haven Line, and transfer moves on the Hudson Line for fresh...