Recent content by reno

Where is that? The only one I have seen is the one installed as part of the Crosby's Corner project.

That was bizarre gates were down and traffic stopped for more than 30 seconds, driver just drove right through. Medical condition or suicide?

North Shore I also dealt with this, that's the exact way it should be done, but it requires extra time and obstacles ( raised structures poking up from the milled surface) that the public whines to government about. So the officials tell the DPW just mill the pavement and pave it don't adjust...

President elect Trump picks David Fink, the man who ran a New England RR into the ground, to lead Federal Railroad Administration. Apparently former Pan Am owner Timothy Mellon's donations to Trump have paid off. Unbelievable. He is also known as a union-buster...

Large sections of the private ROW of the former Fitchburg and Lowell street railway still exist in Westford as walking trails. Also a former powerhouse on East Prescott St. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Mk5HaH4HKJCQU6Pi8 (ROW was behind building adjacent to current CSX rail line)

I don't understand why they are saying the only access is at Charles/MGH (it is actually at the north end of the Longfellow Bridge https://maps.app.goo.gl/fQHUpNBZVVSV1FYCA) , when there is a truck pad at 95 Von Hillern St in Boston near JFK/UMASS. https://maps.app.goo.gl/FjBCxSgN46agfnSy9

A fire code thing. That is so the fire department has direct access to the standpipe on that column.

The only slope requirement I see is Chapter 2 page 2.8 which says cross slope can not exceed 2%. I don't see a longitudinal limit listed. (page 59 in PDF)

Or seeing a freight train at the grade crossing west of the rotary.

The Porter square thing is total bs.

Starrucca Viaduct, a stone arch in Pennsylvania built for $320,000 and opened in 1848 is still in use by freight trains today. A spectacular stone structure, National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Good info here...

Unfortunately I commuted for decades through the rotary. An example of how bad it is that in the evening commute Waze will take you off RT 2 WB at Rt 62, take you through West Concord on to Laws Brook Rd past the rotary, you then take a right on to School St., where you can get on RT 2 EB...

In a example of poetic justice CSX has taken the observation car of Timothy Mellon's former Pan Am business train and converted it to the car for Santa to distribute presents to children in Appalachia. The inside was gutted to hold gifts. Story from Trains Magazine----...

A non moving escalator doesn't meet code for step height.

This all over the news 8 weeks ago, it happened August 18.