Recent content by F-Line to Dudley

Pretty much the entire distance on Black Point Rd. that doesn't have sidewalks (the first third of it immediately south of Downtown to the Eastern Route does) is directly in the middle of the marsh on an embankment hemmed in by guardrails. It's going to be extremely difficult if not impossible...

CAF Urbos 3's are designed for 43-50 MPH depending on particular lengths, so the Type 10's probably have an identical design speed as the propulsion systems would be identical. Most of the schedule and speed improvements for the Type 10's are not going to come from the topline radar reading...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191001033549/https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181015/train-station-plans-come-to-halt-in-kennebunk Kennebunk was actually approved by town vote in 2014 for a seasonal stop (a la Old Orchard Beach), but they scrapped the plan in 2018 when it ran into siting...

https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/high-speed/california-high-speed-board-set-to-award-trainset-contract-to-siemens/ CAHSR makes its rolling stock purchase: Siemens American Pioneer 220. Based off Siemens' widespread Velaro HSR trainset family, and the same exact make that Brightline West is...

Just like happened in New York! 🤡

Kennebunk has been a real debated proposal because the rails are within walking distance of Downtown and it would function as an effective Wells-Saco spacer at roughly the midpoint. That's probably next on the infills pecking order after West Falmouth. Biddeford is only 2 miles from Saco...a...

Yeah, with the NTSB breathing down their necks there isn't a chance in hell that Green sees any speed limit increases until GLTPS Phase 2 is completely in-place. Even Phase 1's warning-only protection doesn't completely remove operator error from the equation. So unfortunately the D isn't...

SO...WORD...THE...LAW...SO...THE...MONEY...CAN'T...DISAPPEAR. 👆 This isn't hard, people. New York did exactly that despite being eleventy times as corrupt as Massachusetts. And if City of Boston is specifically studying the New York example, they're going to know all that right up-front and...

So write the law (that's not even being proposed, just being casually studied for best-practices research) to hard-wire the funding into transit sources that can't legally be redistributed elsewhere. Like New York quite very explicitly did. Problem solved. Seriously...this is not a thing to...

This is what I think of every time Ed Flynn opens his mouth:

It's fully in-character for Culpepper, who has been a real fish-out-of-water since joining the Council last year and seems to know fuckall about how government actually works. He's pretty much proven himself to be a reckless idiot, and that might be enough to get him bounced in his first...

It's a bit rich they're asking for this given that Hartford has had outright broad consensus on how to replace its city-destroying highway...to the point where they were ready to start fundraising for it...and still let analysis paralysis absolutely turf any progress on the I-84 re-route for...

The 17's are next to go. They *had* a set retirement schedule all plotted out right to the end, but that got blown to shreds by the CRRC delivery delays and the fleet availability of the new cars taking a hit due to warranty repairs.

There's very little interest in the domestic passenger loco market because passenger systems are so sparse in North America that the unit quantities suck for developing any kind of manufacturing scale. All of the big rolling stock vendors (Siemens, Alstom, Stadler, etc.) have Euro diesel...

The F40 rentals will be subbing for the locos that are out for rebuild. 3 pilot HSP-46's are in the program not due to return until 2028 (at which point 3-6 units will be rotated out at any given point), and both MP36PH-3C's are still being held in limbo as the T attempts so-far without any...