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Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade The service plan is the MBTA's responsibility, not the contractors. If they have a plan for the vehicles and labor implications as requested by the authority, then they have done their part. The KKO study from 2002 is still the basic play book the MBTA is following...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Keolis had this to say about DMUs in their proposal from last year: http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/Business_Center/Bidding_and_Solicitations/KEOLIS%20Operations%20and%20Management%20Proposal.pdf Our assessment of the current situation: The MBTA may introduce DMUs...

Routes 505, 554, 556, and 558 don't run weekends, only the 553 runs Sat and nothing on Sun

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Good to see that they are pushing the 1A pass, I'm sure a lot of people don't realize it costs the same as the Link pass but also gives them access to the Fairmount Line (and Winthrop buses and Charlestown Ferry as well)

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Should bus service have been increased substantially in Somerville before making the full build commitment for GLX? No one can say the existing bus service is so fully saturated that light rail is the only option left to improve service. Buying 30 DMUs is very cheap...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Buying 30 DMUs for Fairmount should be the test before committing to DMUs anywhere else, and should be separated from discussion of more widespread use. The CapeFlyer to Greenbush comparison might be very fitting by next year. Flyer ridership has been down so far for...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade The fact remains that when large capital is committed to a service it is more likely to remain and a greater effort is made to find the precious operating dollars to keep it running. If GLX ridership is lower than expected they won't just shut it down, one could argue...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade However if the ridership does not build as anticipated, there will be pressure to bail on a conventional service faster than the DMU service as the cost to provide it will be higher, and there will be no capital item consequences for dropping the service.

If anything, they are now accelerating a program that was in place. Most of the third-rail heaters being installed were ordered before this winter.

2-5 years

Third-rail heaters and switch heaters

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade The round-trip cycle time with conventional sets is 70 minutes, that includes 25 minutes each way travel time and 10 minute recovery time at each end to change ends and do brake tests. If you notice the existing midday weekday schedule, the inbound trains arrive...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade It is very expensive to run short sets of conventional equipment. The great theoretical hope of the DMU is to get the operating costs for short trains low enough so that it is economically practical to run high-frequency service especially in the off-peak. In a world...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade The Capital Investment Plan proposal for FY16 still has $300,000 for DMUs in it http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Financials/DraftFY16CIP052615.pdf They have not yet formally cancelled the Request for Proposals that are due on August 13. $300,000 would be...

Its going to the company that owns the rights to manufacture parts for Plymouth Locomotive Works products, W.W. Williams

It was a new news report though he saw, including a new interview with Baker, but it contained old news.

Ch. 7 did interview Baker about the locomotives last week: http://www.whdh.com/story/29314225/t-trouble-trains-that-could-help-the-commute-are-sitting-still Nothing really new that isn't already known.

While they have continued accepting HSPs, the number actually on trains each day has been considerably lower than the number accepted and "active". Remember, the netransit snapshot of locomotive assignments includes units out for inspections or minor repairs, the number actually on trains is...

Yes, if all of the HSPs were here when originally expected, and if the screamers were retired before they were on their last legs, the winter problems might not have lingered as long as they did (but with 90 inches of snow in 3 weeks, there would still have been problems)

Actually, by mid-February 2015, there were still only 10 HSPs that had been accepted for service, all of the others were still waiting for replacement traction motors at Norfolk Southern's Altoona shops or the P&Ws Worcester shops, and had not entered acceptance testing. The small number of...