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Also, when the Red Line Extension to Arlington was in its planning phase, there was an idea that the freight service would continue at-grade across Mass Ave while Red Line trains would tunnel under it.

Essentially, what I heard happened is that the T installed a water sprinkler system to lubricate the green line tracks when they renovated the station, but the drainage solution they had was inadequate/the pipes started leaking, so pretty much since the station opened water has been pooling in...

Plus, they can function as reservoirs for all of the electricity diesels generate during regenerative braking.

Not quite sure why you joined a Boston transit forum if you don't believe transit in Boston will ever work. Is the plan just to spend a couple minutes a day here gloating and telling all of us we're naive idiots?

So uhh this is bad https://www.wcvb.com/article/mbta-speed-restrictions-red-blue-orange-green-lines-subway-trolley/43267279

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/07/metro/live-free-or-dry-amtrak-wont-let-you-buy-booze-nh/ Genuine question: Does this count as a restriction on interstate commerce?

They hire rail operators cyclically - the position closes and then reopens again every couple of months.

I've been looking a fair bit at how overnight trains work in Europe. Frequently, trains are split and re-combined multiple times en route to serve multiple points of origin and destinations with one train. I've been brainstorming a bit about how to improve night trains on the NEC, and here are a...

They did - but their top speed was only 90 MPH and they only ever operated at a top speed of 75 mph (?) in service, so they wouldn't have done much good for the T in any case.

Heck - from the pictures it looks like I'd the car had been rear-wheel-drive it would likely be in the lobby right now.

Unless transit police interviewed the driver and the driver said that the crash was intentional.

Crossrail did include new rolling stock order - and a much larger one than the GLX did, at that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_345

It'd be pretty simple (?) to expand the "Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority" into a "New England Passenger Rail Authority".

If the Springfield factory could be "recovered" in a lawsuit, might it be possible to turn it over to another railcar manufacturer?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/14/metro/workers-building-new-orange-red-line-cars-springfield-describe-toxic-error-prone-factory/ Among many other bombshells: "In a Dec. 14 letter to CRRC’s project manager obtained by the Globe, the MBTA’s DeVitto said Wabtec Corp., the company producing...