Recent content by F-Line to Dudley

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...

That's exactly where the 1970's Orange Line extension proposal sited its Reading station. Ash @ Main is also physically closer to Reading center at Town Common up Main St., so the walk scores are slightly better for that location than Reading Depot. Relocating the CR station is a fully viable...

Actually, the way it would almost certainly go is a modification of Alt. C, shown in Magenta below: The dashed black line is the fully existing Wilmington Industrial Track, an out-of-service CSX freight spur. The rest of it is a graded power line ROW. You'd shiv in a southbound wye leg on the...

2nd-place finisher State Rep. Tran Nguyen picked up a bevy of late endorsements as the somewhat belated establishment pick, but party leaders basically dickered half the summer away in indecision and it ended up costing them because those endorsements didn't hit until August after a lot of...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/dan-koh-comes-out-on-top-in-crowded-primary-race-to-replace-moulton/ Dan Koh came out on top in the five-way primary (technically six-way, since one recent dropout was still on the ballot) for the open 6th Congressional District seat that Moulton gave up...

CAVEAT: The outfit that's pitching this smells a whole lot pie-in-the-sky and just a little bit scammy.

Practically, the only way you're doing New York-Portland is via the Inland Route + a diversion down the Grand Junction + a reverse at North Station, because that's 100% on territory Amtrak has trackage rights and crew qualifications on (they do 2 Grand Junction equipment shuffles per week...

Who in Massachusetts GOP politics has a chance of flipping even a low turnout statewide election??? The state party is so MAGA-pilled now it's disowned even Charlie Baker, the only guy who's been able to actually do it in the last dozen years. I don't think a special election is an especially...

Do you have any data to back this up, or is this just your own personal feels about what (read: height) makes a destination "serious"? Do the 15 Red stops that didn't make the Top 12 in systemwide ridership flunk the "seriousness" test even more badly? And what "suburban commuters" are using...

The last time the T published the Blue Book compendium, Davis ranked 12th out of 63 prepayment stations in ridership. I assume if we're holding them to this lofty standard that the other 51 stations below it are goners too and we can just kiss the entire Blue Line and all of the Green Central...

That's not a default given. Somebody has to make that case that voting for Markey is throwing a term away due to his age. Moulton's had all year to make that case. He's largely failed to do so. Advertising is way, way down over the competitive Senate primary 6 years ago, Moulton spent too...

Latest heritage unit, on F40 #1072. . . Homage to this:

If it tightens up the on-time performance, it's probably worth doing right now in spite of the future uncertainty as increased reliability will drive some immediate ridership gains even predating line-wide frequency increases. Haverhill definitely needs that. Although I was led to believe that...

Yeah, that line needs gates too. But MassDOT is going to take care of MassDOT-owned lines before it opens the pursestrings to do up private-owned lines, especially when CSX is being so spendy with self-financed upgrades that it can easily afford its own gate installations. The Framingham...

The entire agency would be falling down at repairing vehicles across all lines and modes if the warehouse were the problem, instead of just one make on one line being specifically unable to get parts. This points to an issue with CAF's timeliness at sending them parts. Which...ain't great and...