Recent content by Roxxma

I'll still take them over the long slick and shiny fiberglass benches that were on the 01400 series cars. Anytime a train stopped short, everyone seated would just slide towards the front and into their neighbor, if someone happened to be sitting there.

They're both hideous trash. Absolute abominations. The Bay Village Historic District and Boston Landmarks Commissions both abdicated their missions here. This kind of crap would never fly in Beacon Hill or the Back Bay. It shouldn't in Bay Village either. My point was that this is a worse...

If this was their goal, they should have just demolished completely and started from scratch instead. The enshittification of the preservation movement continues. What a mockery of adaptive reuse.

Well, that didn't last too long. It would be somewhat ironic if a grocery store was the next tenant in the former Stella space.

Until relatively recently that was just an exit, not an emergency exit. It was sketchy as hell, but the Berkeley St doors would normally just be propped open most of the time providing an unencumbered covered walkway free and clear that went all there from Dalton St: Enter the Sheraton opposite...

I think a municipal public works director might find it more prudent and less risky to lay down salt on approach to a grade crossing and risk the gates malfunctioning to their failsafe mode (activation) than dealing with the possibility of cars sliding into activated crossings and being hit...

Or they might have approached a little too fast, tried to stop, and slid into the intersection. In February 2003, I was aboard a Chicago bound California Zephyr as it made its way through Iowa and Illinois during an icy snowstorm and noticed at several crossings stopped vehicles with fresh skid...

And the two previous were just the New Haven stations. Until sometime in the 1960s, the Boston and Albany had stations at Trinity Place (westbound) and Huntington Ave (eastbound).

Why even bother if it's that far out of the way? That location is about the same distance down the tracks from the casino's main entrance as Sullivan Square is, barring an exclusive busway, gondola, monorail, or pre-2006 Wellington Station style Wonkavator, shuttle buses would sit in the same...

The pre-1997 North Station Orange Line station was very similar to Tufts Medical Center station. They were built at about the same time, presumably designed by the same concern. The original North Station didn't have the south end exits and fare lobby that Tufts does, that was added to North...

In the 1990s when I was living there, Burlington embarked on a sidewalk installation and building program and built sidewalks on most existing major roads that predated the town's suburbanization (after when developers building new roads were required to include a sidewalk on at least one side)...

You wouldn't even have to do that, they've both been part of the same city since 1996, when Halifax, Dartmouth, and Bedford were all amalgamated, along with the rest of Halifax County, into Halifax Regional Municipality.

I watched that yesterday, probably at about the same time that you posted this. Even if you don't care about the B&M or railroad history, that dude, Rick Kfoury, makes it so interesting. All of the videos he hosts are so well researched and presented.

Burlington is preparing to partially demolish, renovate and expand its high school (fun fact: the current 1973 Burlington High School was designed by Earl Flansburgh, who did a lot of work on the Cornell campus, and is the father of They Might Be Giants member John Flansburgh). It is also...

I would guess either Central Square in Lynn, or Bellingham Square in Chelsea.