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NNEPRA presentation on the Union Station siting alternatives: https://www.nnepra.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-08-13-Portland-Train-Station-Slides.pdf Public comments are welcome until Aug. 27.

Why are we talking about fixed rail spans? The only reason the Army Corps isn't allowing more Cape Flyer slots is that MassDOT refuses to pay for more bridge openings. It has nothing to do with rail traffic vs. maritime traffic. The lift bridge handled enormously more rail traffic when NYNH&H...

Where are you going to get them? Nobody's ordering an "adjusted for east coast standards" FLIRT. They don't exist on anybody's tracks or on anybody's procurement paperwork. The T says they want to do this BEMU pilot with a lease. That means you have to have a pre-existing FRA-compliant fleet...

That's what I said...they can't. The singular Caltrain demonstrator unit is the only KISS BEMU on Planet Earth. Nobody else in Europe or elsewhere has placed a BEMU order of them yet; Caltrain's demonstrator is the first-time customization for that whole make. Caltrain hasn't exercised any...

There's literally nothing available for lease. Caltrain is spending $80M for one 4-car Stadler KISS demonstrator set ($20M/car, high because it's the first-time customization KISS BEMU demonstrator), and Metra is spending $154M for eight off-shelf 2-car Stadler FLIRT Akkus ($9.6M per car)...

When GLX was still slated for West Med, they weren't thinking of grade-separating. Canal St. would retain its grade crossing, being a low-volume street (or the crossing could've just been blocked off cutting the street at little loss). And the extension would stub out at High St., not making...

That's a load of bull. It took only 3-1/2 years from inking of the design-build contract to full completion for Amtrak to electrify 155 miles of track from New Haven to South Station, substations and all. That's a shorter timeframe than they're aiming for with the BEMU's, and it was a way more...

NETransit updated. . . Orange in-service ranks jumped from 108 to 114 (19 sets), so the in-testing ranks got flushed out after months of inexplicable delay. We're only 1 more set away from numbers parity with the old Hawker-Siddeley roster, and those 6 cars are in-testing. No new deliveries...

They've done the following since taking over. Upgraded the Worcester-Ayer line to 40 MPH freight/60 MPH passenger with all-new rail. They're now starting the clearance work for allowing double-stack trains to Ayer, which involves undercutting one road bridge and raising the Downtown Clinton...

Caltrain spent $25M less per KISS EMU set than it's spending on the KISS BEMU set, and those were 6-car sets not 4-car. The BEMU markup is extreme. Some of Caltrain's advocates are even advocating for bustitution of the Gilroy branch until CAHSR gets its house in order and electrifies that...

The bottom one is a Stadler KISS, same one Caltrain ordered. Note the high-and-low boarding doors, which was the Caltrain customization. Although I'm not sure what's up with the front car in that render, which looks like an HSR power car and not a passenger carriage. The Caltrain KISSes board...

It could be the Stadler KISS bi-level BEMU's that Caltrain is ordering for the un-electrified Gilroy tail of their system. Those would fit our system, as the heavily Caltrain-modified version was bid for both our EMU and BEMU RFP's. But right now their order is only for 1 pilot set for a cool...

It's not going to be FLIRT's. They aren't available for 48-inch full-high platforms, only 8-inch lows (like Metra's) and Euro-style 29-inch middle-highs (like CA Arrow's). Doing a U.S. high-boarding variant would be a fresh customization Stadler's never bid anywhere before, and I'm not even...

None of the NSRL routing alternatives pass directly underneath this site, so there's nothing to provision for.

The density conundrum is why a Red Line extension will never be considered as a uni-build Alewife-to-128. It's pretty clearly going to be a first phase of Arlington Heights dug under a (post-construction better than before) trail, then implanting bus hubs at the two extension stops so the...

It wouldn't be the Red Line. It would be a Mattapan-like trolley or DLRV dinky disconnected from the rest of the network that pings between Arlington Heights RL terminal and 128/Hanscom-or-Burlington on wider headways. I don't personally agree that that's the best solution, but it has been...

Everything you're saying should be ignored, because you absolutely double-down refuse to substantiate it with any facts other than your intensely personal vibes. That, and your shiftiness once you get called out on it with actual facts/citations/data, is such a longstanding chronic bad posting...

You're changing the subject...again. You said the traffic was really not a year-round problem. "Traffic on the 3's" disagrees with you on the regular when there's a lane closure for said offseason maintenance, and you've been presented with the offseason traffic-count data that shows the...

Citation, or are we sextupling-down on vibes here? What makes you think they aren't already doing that? They do 9 months of work on the bridges already with frequent lane closures, and the offseason backups get horrendous when there's a lane out-of-commission. The whole point of replacing the...

Correct on all points. The media had previously reported that all Orange shells were in Springfield for assembly. But they've only been coming in at a pace of 2 per month. And if Red 1930/1931 have been delivered, that means 10 cars (1918-1929) have been fully assembled at Springfield because...