Recent content by Tallguy

Go around them.....how?

I believe that it is at least partially Union job bidding related

Read above. What part of NY is not inclined to approve don't we understand? Or is there some new way of getting gas here without the pipe going through the state?

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Okay article but claims that CSX owns most of the track when I don't think they own any of it. PAS and MBTA, yes?

You would have to radically mode shift for Logan

So, am I the only one who sees the present craziness in DC as a possible opportunity to get the Corps decision changed on phase two through the swamp?

So, a city of that size would warrant at least one new station and possibly several, on both lines( and maybe to Lowell as well) I you suddenly had 100-300k people living there, Worcester service would do well, and Boston ridership would explode. Probably most service would only go to Devens...

First off, TM are volunteers, so cut us a little slack. TM shouldn't have to do this, the T should. Second, how much of this might be due to OL and RL fleet size?

Agreed. I was referring to the period between the sanctions and the screwups. If they had fulfilled those contracts, I was suggesting that repeat orders from Chicago, LA and Boston could have been extensive enough to warrant not giving up

This CRRC saga is most unfortunate. Even after the restrictions, they could have made good coin meeting the transit vehicle needs of their present clients. With a plant in WMa, they could have built a thousand EMU cars

One Billion Dollars gets you 21 miles of double catenary? Reasonable? On what world?

Probably won't be CRRC

I assume that would be part of NSRL

I still argue that OL split above Sullivan and running on the CR ROW is the way to go, along with moving RR onto the old ROW through Eastie to a cross harbor tunnel is the way to go, along with GL to Sullivan from West Station. No tunnels, decent density, cheap comparatively... And I know it may...