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Even the Buzzards Bay commuter rail feasibility study proposed siding lengthenings on the existing Middleboro branch because of the way meets changed with the longer running distance requiring more resilience on the track layout. Probably the Middleboro siding and the Randolph siding would've...

If that were true the speed limits would've changed line-wide instead of just on the B and C. The "vehicle availability" thing is real. 19 Type 8's out-of-service (17 long-term, 2 wrecked), and 18 Type 7's out-of-service (7 short-term, 7 long-term, 4 wrecked).

Ward Hill is actually another proposed station location about a mile and a half outbound from Osgood Landing, at the Industrial Ave. exit off 495. I actually think that one would fare a little better than Osgood Landing, being near some existing not speculative TOD at the industrial park, a bit...

$55M at 40% contingency. And they're projecting more riders than any other Haverhill Line stop for greenfield TOD. Yeah...I'm gonna say all those numbers don't wash.

The Central Corridor is so far off from being anyone's planning priority that the not-yet-built B&A Palmer station will be more than 2 decades old by the time they need to address the disconnect. I mean, that's not much different a timeframe from Middleborough/Lakeville's opening-to-orphaning...

OK, John Silber.

I much doubt they'd be able to make the finances work with the infrastructure mods required. RR.net posters who've been given BSRA tours of that tunnel say the air quality is absolutely terrible in there with everything choked in inches-thick layers of dust, plus it currently hosts vent fans...

I believe it was being considered in the initial scoping for Go Boston 2030 plan from the City, but didn't make the cut for the final report (Orange +1 to Rozzie Sq. did, though) because there were too many future-TOD dependencies that weren't totally under the city's planning thumb. It's...

They do, but they expect longer trains from each origin point for the WC so it gets harder. I could see real-deal max length 9-packs being used from Boston for the event. The dwell times are definitely icky with up to half the cars on each train overspilling the ends of the platform. The...

Yes...from both the Boston and Providence directions simultaneously.

It's not going to the beach. It's going to the dock right next to the Route 1 bridge in downtown Newburyport. You have to transfer to the bus to get to the beach. Why are you even taking a ferry to avoid the bus when you still have to take the bus? :rolleyes:

What economic development are you going to get with a mode that takes at least twice as long as the current mode to make the same trip, at 1/3 or less the capacity of the current mode, at a mere fraction of the frequency of the current mode? I get that water transportation has a sort of...

Exactly. They shouldn't be idling at all except for maybe 1/2 hour before a set goes into service to start the engine. Rockport layover has a weak power draw, so they sometimes don't get to plug in all sets when the yard is full of long sets. The T tried to wad up a power upgrade with some...

The ground power at the layovers includes a separate cable feed for fast-starting the locomotive in the morning. That's why T locomotives always face away from Boston; the plug-ins for that are all at the ends of the layover yards facing furthest away from Boston (it's not, per popular legend...

MEVA bus #11 does Lawrence-Haverhill-Newburyport on limited-stop schedule in an hour on-the-button every hour without touching 495. Who is this ferry even for?

Rail-with-trail was the recommended study alternative from MassDOT, so...pure, unadulterated NIMBYism.

Buying a diesel power pack with the explicit commitment to scrapping it in a few years is bad value that only serves to further delay the electrification investment. Metrolinx in Toronto hedged on that with its Nippon Sharyo DMU's for the Union-Pearson Express service. They're supposedly...

Yes. Not a lot of cars, but New England Produce Center still gets serviced on the Everett runs. And yes, it's primarily Plate F reefers. Run times to Everett are primarily at night nowadays.

DMU's have a lot of asterisks about lower emissions. Where they actually do lower emissions is from running shorter sets than a locomotive that's overpowered to haul up to 8 or 9 cars, whether it's actually pulling 4 or 5 cars. That benefits you on very frequent short-haul runs like our Rail...

That's weird that they're trying this on only one line instead of having a demonstrator loco that can roam the whole northside. Outer layovers don't have any fueling facilities...only centralized Boston Engine Terminal and Southampton St. do. They must just be having a tanker truck come up...