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They moved the Lechmere station north across the McGrath Highway and this new line will simply be extended northwest from the new station.

Just thinking out load here . . . A lot of new passenger cars are wider in the middle (like 10 6") and need to narrow at the platform level due to the platform clearance issue. Would there be a way to simply add a (6 inch?) permanent gap filler just below the doors that doesn't need to be...

No. That's the new United Materials Management C&D company that is the biggest reason that the line has had this huge renaissance. Here is a video of it being serviced with brand new cars:

It's a 10 mph crossing just like all of the Greenline road and pedestrian crossings. It's very lightly used and seems a ridiculous rule especially at night or in the winter. However they will actually setup a radar trap there sometimes to get an operator or two. An official in a T car will be...

Thinking it's going to be the restoration of this siding just north of the Route 117 bridge crossing.

Just have to wonder why everyone isn't going "Brightline" with this high-level platform situation. Just use slide-out gap-fillers on the passenger cars and end all this expensive gauntlet craziness.

Very surprised I haven't seen any mention of drone videos. Anyone seen any?

Cambridge is across the river so what say should they have in what happens on the Allston side? Wouldn't the view be so much nicer if it was a level parkway setting instead of an ugly imposing viaduct? It also just happens to be the widest part of the river and filling it a bit won't even be...

Well is there any way that "Yard 8" (i.e., a second track) could come back too? BTW - I did check the latest imagery on Zoom and it sure looks like they have left room for the loop track just north of the new Greenline ramp to Union Square. Have to wait to see if the bridge to the maintenance...

Thanks for that info F-Line. So you are saying that the loop track through old Yard 8 will possibly be reconnected? That is the first I have heard of this. I thought this New Washington Street track was their way of replacing it. Interesting. Do the squeaky wheels at Brickbottom know?

Someone elsewhere posted pics of BO-1 shoving back all the way from Tower A to Everett. I can't tell from the map images due to the overhead highway but does anyone know if when that "new" connection that parallels New Washington Street is operational would it be possible to run directly...

Not thinking of primarily using it for an Amtrak NEC train just passing through Boston. It could be used for all or some connecting Amtrak Downeaster service from South Station to the north (Maine Red Sox fans rejoice). Commuter trains from the south into South Station could then reverse and...

Yes! I have been saying this for years. Put it all at grade. Replacing an ugly viaduct with another is stupid. The river is very wide here and a slight narrowing isn't going to matter much at all. The only other thing I would like to see is the Pike lowered under the BU Bridge so a new...

Okay, thanks for that. I do find it interesting that they supposedly are still running the OCS around for potential buyers.

F-Line, do you have a preferred suiter and why?

Thanks very much.

Thanks for those fantastic pics! Really appreciate the work to inform us of the GLX progress. Is there any possibility of showing us the ancillary freight work? I am curious to see the "new" Yard 21 and the revived freight line that now parallels New Washington Street to get to it and...

Out of curiosity, are all new bridges meeting double-stack clearance requirements?

You know I've always heard that Conley is just too small and it's not worth the effort to extend the rail line to the property. But I've just read where one of the worlds largest container ships just arrived in Halifax and I was curious about the facilities they have. I was surprised to see...