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Update: This may be related to banks' automated fraud detection units detecting monthly pass holders renewing their passes as fraudulent (because they're all identical transactions posting at around the same time). Apparently this used to happen pretty regularly.

Also, it seems like a good chunk of the T's Charlie card system has suddenly crapped out. I was just at North Station and watched as an entire concourse of passengers were unable to load money onto their charliecards with credit/debit cards. The machines are now displaying the following warning:

Traveling southbound on the Downeaster today, saw what appeared to be quite a few miles of preparations for installation of a second/third track between Saco and Dover, NH out the left-hand side of the train. Miles of prepared grade - some portions of it were even ballasted - and there were some...

At yesterday's BSRA meeting it was announced that the T is planning to shift to 8-minute headways on the Orange Line for the winter schedule, which will require the return to service of some of the old trains, so yes, that most likely is what your friend saw.

Empire corridor ridership between Albany and NYC is remarkably strong. That corridor at least merits wires and 125 MPH service.

I've always thought an expansion of the Harvard Bus Subway that would allow it to serve the 66, 1 and 69 would be an interesting project.

I've found mbtainfo.com pretty reliable.

Until very recently it was double-track, and the ROW and grade are still there and even the bridges are in a lot of places. As far as double-track projects go, it's one of the easier ones.

This is only Connelly adjacent, but I snagged a few pictures of the Queen Mary 2 when she was docked at Black Falcon on the 25th of September.

Oh - I thought that the middle portion of the Tobin Tunnel would be a submerged tube like the Ted Williams.

A tunnel could also be built with a transit tube, say for an extension of the Green Line.

Headed out of North Station today, I saw what looked like an old single-level coach near BET which had been half-repainted in what appeared to be New Haven colors. I'll see if I can't get a picture of the darn thing tomorrow or Sunday - in conjunction with the all-black rebuilt F40 would seem to...

CRRC is fulfilling the CTA contract out of another factory in Illinois. They're probably having the same problems the Springfield factory is having though.

It would need to be driven by a CSX crew (and probably also a Norfolk Southern crew for part of the journey) already familiar with the rails between Minooka, Illinois (?) and Boston. Said CSX crew could either haul a) this one locomotive or b) this one locomotive and more than a million dollars...

Yup. It's frequently in use as a Charlestown ferry.

Possibly so they can be used as supports for the 25Kv catenary wires that would be used to electrify the commuter rail tracks next to the Green Line tracks.

If Melrose residents really want a service that makes all the local stops in their town and then hits Oak Grove, they should just extend the Orange Line to Reading already.

They *need* more than the initial agreement promised them, the feds are on their side (ish) and they gave leverage. Why shouldn't they?

Would service on the outer Fitchburg be disrupted?