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Any idea what project all these fancy sealed/welded pipes at the substation/power building located at Chauncy & Bedford St downtown? I wonder if that's for some kind of high voltage interconnect, like something supercooled / super conducting? Appears to be AZZ high voltage buses. Makes you...

Core slipform is now above grade. To the moon!

Update: the travel ban went into effect @ 5:00pm ET on 2 Feb. Hainan landed two planes at Logan on 2 Feb (1:30p and 1:45p) and then got out of town just before the closure, with the above (pictured) flight departing at 4:10pm ET. New article

Are there any ferry flights today to repatriate Chinese planes/pax back to China? I just watched Hainan Airlines 482 depart KBOS for ZBAA. They're scheduled, according the FlightAware, to return tomorrow. Doesn't seem like the travel limitations are in affect yet.

Seems like 1400s are getting some more revenue time. I managed to catch 1404 to home on Thursday night (1/16), to work Friday (1/17), and home again Friday night. Looked like consist 1404. Observations Heat didn't work in my car, had to bundle up (nothing coming from side board radiators)...

First 1400 service run entering Downtown Crossing. https://youtu.be/gndcvLhx_qM

One more day to grab your cheap upgauged fares! Soon we'll have even more whaling in Boston Harbor.

I meant to post this earlier in the week (2 April). Saw cores being drilled at the western entrance to the I-90 Prudential tunnel. Hopefully someone is decking soon.

I remember reading in the 2006 Globe that they couldn't toll Big Dig use because it would slow down and negate the congestion savings. However, now that we've got continuous tolling on the Mass Pike state wide, why can't we add tolls to the Big Dig?

They finally have a sign and name for the project I posted earlier this month. MITMCo West Campus Drainage Project - Talbot Street Outfall They've also started driving some sheet piles for a cellular cofferdam, and brought in a barge. Just what we need, more Charles River outfall ;)

They're been building a pedestal for this crane on the Cambridge Charles River bank over the last two weeks. Does anyone know what project this giant Barletta Manitowoc 999 crane is for next to MIT tennis courts on Memorial Drive?

Any update on the office tower build timeline upon the east podium? Sure looks like they're finishing off the podium and buttoning up for winter (e.g. paneling the mechanicals penthouse), which raises the question when they'll drop Oath's tower on top.

Having just gotten back from vacation in Berge & Oslo, Norway, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, I feel so sad about the street trolleys in Boston. The fact that people spend half their boarding time climbing up into the trolley, because they are not all flat like those in Berge for example, and that...

Programming note: AirFrance whale tonight. AF10 A380 headed for JFK diverted to KBOS. Anyone catch it?