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The equipment should be fully available within 3 years. I think that'll be lots sooner than the haggling process with Long Island. There are lots of traffic management difficulties with meshing an intercity super-express with crush-load LIRR local traffic, and the community input process is...

It wouldn't happen until the dual-mode Charger 42E's are in-service, so they'd change from electric to diesel at HAROLD interlocking where the third rail -only LIRR tracks split off. All Northeast Regional equipment would be capable of making the power change by that point.

The bus facilities study of about 15 years ago worked up Watertown as a breakaway western garage. It was in competition with Riverside as a site for a western facility, with lean to Watertown because it was a pre-existing site with easier community input. Institution of the western garage was...

There's not a lot they can do about that. The crossing signal needs to have adequate sightlines coming off the rotary so drivers who are flooring it around have enough time to react when the signal changes. At low traffic hours drivers really gun it around the rotary, and there are frequent...

The Haverhill Line next to the Orange Line doesn't need double-tracking...for Reading service. It's only if you plan to keep Haverhill trains conjoined to the Reading Line instead of returning them to their pre-1979 alignment via the Lowell Line + Wildcat Branch that the Somerville-Medford...

And the same scheme was applied to one F40 briefly in the mid-80's.

Yes...there...is. As extensively discussed and which you keep ignoring, the Boston Transit Commission designed the ROW from Day 1 with conversion in mind.

I diagrammed out a variation of this a few years ago. Going along 295 would speed things up quite a bit by eliminating the cluster of 11 problematic grade crossings on the MEC mainline north of 295. Plus the Grand Trunk ROW north of the Cove is almost arrow-straight where the MEC main has some...

Fitchburg is 6th on the line in boardings behind South Acton, Waltham, Concord, West Concord, and Littleton. With Littleton eclipsing it in the 2018 counts after it got its schedule increases from being the new short-turn terminus. If anything there's a crying need for frequency increases on...

Why are they kvetching so much about keeping the Thompson's Point layover? No Downeasters on the schedule actually terminate in Portland anymore; Brunswick is the only facility that gets used. Thompson's Point only takes some non-revenue equipment transfers these days, nothing worth keeping it...

https://www.railroad.net/quot-up-north-quot-gawking-district-1-sightings-t103727-2745.html#p1649871 Timely reminder that high-and-wide freights do trawl Maine. A CSX Mountain Branch train with high-and-wide cars mis-directed from Rigby Yard took the PTC station track today and ended up ripping...

You don't need to "study" it. The Boston Transit Commission reports on the design and construction of the Red Line + High Speed Line are fully archived by Boston Public Library, and detail at length the provisioning for heavy rail. It's century-proven fact left to us by the original builders...

$6.95 on MBTAgifts. Some assembly required if you want to surgically transplant the RFID chip from your CharlieCard to make it tappable.

There was already was a House bill floated in this last session about MassDOT taking ownership of the rail bridge, filed by some Cape passenger rail advocates. It didn't get picked up because it was a wad of pie-in-sky proposals mainly designed to be a conversation-starter. But the ownership...

The cemetery was populated largely before the trolleys, when it was smoke-belching steam trains hauling heavyweight coaches over clackety jointed rail. They really don't have a leg to stand on with any noise complaint. It's not like the trolleys are silent, either; it's still jointed rail, and...

No, that is not the only way it could be done well. The ROW was built by the Old Colony concurrent with the cemetery being laid out. It pre-dates any burials. There is no legal consideration due to the cemetery for continuing to run at-grade through it in perpetuity. There is no technical...

They're bald-faced lying. The BTD public-records build documentation about the 1928 Dorchester extension of the Red Line and the construction of the High-Speed Line extensively cites how HRT extension to Mattapan is explicitly provisioned. The only reason HRT wasn't done all the way from Day 1...

Yeah, the case for east-west is hella weak. In addition to Westbrook being too short to serve enough catchment to properly amortize its costs (just run a damn express bus), there's an increasingly high chance that the whole Mountain Branch is going to be a rail trail in due time. The state's...

The 41-car option was voted on in the May 23 Board meeting. Definitely old news.

2-car platforms for 5-car consists at the busiest non-Boston stop on the route is not exactly doing good service to time savings. The dwell penalty at Portland for having to shuffle through the interiors of multiple cars to get to the exits is going to be a bit over-long with that setup. Also...