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I think at this point I'd flex my muscles and use eminent domain to take whatever land I needed from BU to do it right and put everything at grade. However, since the pike has to dip below Comm Ave. (maybe grandfathered?) and the Grand Junction (not grandfathered?) they are phucked . . . it's...

I thought it was going to be taller.

So is that a reason for building a brim along the river edge at this point and placing the linear park on top? I'm sure that can't be done either, right? This is getting crazy.

Is the Mass Pike completely above flood level east of here into downtown?

No Greenline Type 7 trains go over 40 mph. IFAIK the old Boeing LRVs were the last trains to run at 50 mph on the Highland Branch.

There's a lot of info there and I did not see any specific curve information. Can you please tell us where this is exactly. Thanks,

The crossings are all pretty much on slower sections of track. Certainly nowhere near the 110 (or 125 mph with barrier) limits allowed.

There has been mention that the speed through curves has been increased in some areas. The NEC north of NYP has plenty of them. I guess part of this is that Amtrak has raised the cant (which was set artificially low) and increased the top speed to 165. I believe a lot of this is because the...

I checked out the project and will answer my own question. Yes, the platform length shown here is temporary but the final design will result in shorter platforms than before.

No, they all max out at 40 mph.

So this is even faster then the planned 160 mph? They would have had to reach 170 mph testing to do this right? I thought they only got it up to 166.8 mph.

Look at the windows if you are in doubt. Acela I has two piece windows. Acela II has a one piece single pane.

Space looks about the same to me.

Is the shortening of the platforms temporary? Looks like a long walk to the trains now and Amtrak certainly needs as much track length as possible for future consist growth.

Yeah, that cafe has seats. Amtrak doesn't think we want to sit down to eat in the new Acela :mad:

I hear you and you are right about how things are. But now we have new larger ships coming in with many more containers. Who's to say where all this new business is going? Saint John was a sleepy small port too. Now it's generating double-stack container train loads of new business. As you...

I guess its a chicken or the egg type of thing, eh?

Really? Look at the below image. That green shaded area on the left is mostly vacant land unused for years. The yellow shaded area on the far right is used primarily for storage since that east pier is in such poor condition that ships can't dock there. Also due to its proximity to Logan it...

The low one will be placed towards the east closer to Logan. The two taller ones will be placed to the west end of the pier. The airspace clearance increases within the Reserve Channel. Massport considered all options and this was a sensible compromise. They could have ordered all of the...

That's an old image. Here you go: