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Is this even what Harvard wants to build here, or is the state just wild-guessing at a bunch of blanks? The land owner's active input doesn't seem to prominently feature in these plans.

Kansas City uses the CAF Urbos 3, the same make the Type 10's are derived from, without shrinking the windows. It's definitely not FTA regs that govern the window size.

Massachusetts probably wouldn't skimp on the funds. They want this badly for the in-district constituency up to the border and for traffic relief. So chances are they'd fund everything needed--stations at UMass and North Chelmsford + double-track to the border--for Manchester service up-front...

New Hampshire Brain simplified: "Taxes...BAD! Drowning in regressive nuisance fees...GOOD, actually!" 🤡

2018-2023 was the original delivery target for all Orange and Red cars. :(

On the contrary...they seemed to think very very hard about the most Rube Goldberg-esque possible solution to keep the station costs artificially low. Which is kind of scary given the effort put in to make that force-fit. It was just haphazardly compartmentalized to the point that they didn't...

Over a third-billion dollars to push the same commute delay time a few miles further out. Yep...that checks out. :poop:

Not "just regional rail trains"...pigeonholed to literally one overcustomized variant of the Stadler KISS bi-level and nothing else. Because (page 5-31) they stupidly break from T standards and spec 8-inch platforms for all the GJ stops in a vain attempt to save money. The only vehicle on the...

Forge Park-Franklin doesn't need double-tracking to sustain :30 Regional Rail schedules because it's a short segment at the end of the line, so it's not likely ever to be double-tracked. The Milford Branch historically was also single-tracked, so there may not be room to do more than occasional...

Some scuttlebutt on RR.net that Silver Hill station is coming back online during the next schedule revision.

NYNH&H's steam schedules to Hyannis actually averaged 1-2 minutes faster than their diesel schedules, with 1 additional intermediate stop to boot. Compare the 1930 schedule with travel times near the end of Hyannis commuter rail service in 1958. The slower steam acceleration was offset by less...

The train will never be time-competitive with a bus. NYNH&H took 1:53 in 1930 to do Yarmouth Jct. to Provincetown, which is only a few minutes less than it takes for Cape Flyer to do Boston-Hyannis. It was terrible transit back in its day, which is why it got bustituted during the Depression. A...

North Station originally needed 4 drawbridges because steam locomotives are uni-directional. There was no such thing as push-pull ops back in the steam era. So every inbound train after discharging had to make a deadheading backup move into Boston Engine Terminal to get turned around, then...

Just an industrial park siding. It dead-ended before reaching the power line ROW. Unlike the mostly intact Hanscom spur there's no trace of the industrial park siding left because of new building construction.

Running with one crapped-out diesel engine is going to maim the tractive effort due to halving the available electricity. It's designed so a mechanical failure can let the train complete its trip (meaning less inconvenience to customers), but comes at cost of a major speed penalty. So you...

The direct path to Hanscom's terminal would follow more-or-less the former freight spur into the base...which was a loopy journey from Hartwell Ave. along the Shawsheen River and around the airfield's perimeter fence about 2 miles long with some routing challenges on the last half-mile because...

The only FRA-compliant high-level boarding DMU on the market is the Nippon Sharyo DMU, which only does 0.78 m/s². The FLIRTs are FRA-compliant, but don't conform to our platform heights and the WINKs also don't yet conform to our platform heights and haven't achieved FRA compliance. When the T...

Rapid transit is wanted because the only more frequent commuter rail service they can physically get is conversion of the Needham Line to a Forest Hills-Needham urban rail shuttle with forced transfer. Which would give them :15 frequencies, but force the whole ridership to transfer to the...

M8's board at a little 2-car one-track high south of the rest of the station along South Water St. that was constructed because the curved full-high across from the station building had too much curvature for the quarter-point doors. It's a fugly temporary band-aid until the state comes up with...

Have you actually read the 2012 study? There's a whole chapter detailing their demand forecasting out to 2035, inclusive of all the hot-hot-hot development that was in the pipeline. It's not obsolete in the slightest. They leaned hard into Kendall's scorching development pace. Again...have...