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Do you know if it was a newer HSP-46 locomotive or an older F40PH-3C rebuild? The HSP's, while having pretty good MTBF reliability, have so much computer brains that they can be a bit of an ordeal to restart when there's a system fault triggering the computer into safe mode.

Battery box. Old-timey passenger cars use axle generators and batteries for their electricity, since they would've been pulled by locomotives (in Cape Cod Central's case, freight locomotives) that don't have modern passenger Head-End Power hookups.

It wasn't ages ago. It was 9 months ago that they last reset the contract. And that was for a Biden tariff adjustment. This isn't a new thing in the slightest.

I think you're giving Lynch way too much credit. He's always been a fairweather rep, ingratiating himself to whatever sentiment is fashionable without having more than skin-deep buy-in to the issues. Right now it's a bear market for federal funding, so he's sandbagging it. He's never sat on...

All of their current North American clients have backed away. SEPTA infamously canceled its commuter rail coach order (there's a couple of nearly-complete cars within photography distance sitting in the Springfield plant's yard). And both L.A. Metro and CTA in Chicago passed on very...

Major electrification of the T is not going to be initiated or completed in a Trump Administration at the rate they're hemming-and-hawing, so...in all practicality no, it's not a factor. It's unlikely that whoever gets elected in 2028 is going to have the semi-automatic aimed as squarely at...

Given that the rest of the world is in-process of electrifying new route miles pretty much 24/7/365 every single year, foreign bidders should be able to make hay with much better prices because of their incumbent scale doing cookie-cutter electrifications with all the usual (non- in real...

So...about $6-7B to electrify the whole system. Still not seeing where the extra $23B comes from in their scare quote.

Uhhh....the only other candidate in the race is crowing that he 'accomplished' something over what Wu just did with this one lane. What exactly is the choice here? "I'm mad that this one lane got removed, so I'm gonna vote for the guy who wants to get rid of all of them." How does that wash?

Not really. For most out-in-the-open double-track OCS modern installations it's 1 pole overhanging both tracks, alternating sides of the ROW. Amtrak didn't significantly overbuild it when it did New Haven-Boston 25 years ago. There isn't a significant increase in catenary cost for...

What in an OCS system touches wetlands? All of the hardware sits on the existing graded ROW. If they're able to continually service and upgrade the signal plant without onerous environmental permitting, they should be able to do the same with the electrical plant because it's all within the...

Honestly, 30 minutes/4 TPH is plenty much service to amortize electrification costs. You practically need to breach above hourly service for it to be a good value, but :30 is more than fine and many agencies around the world have/can/do make valuations based on those service levels. Maybe the...

Also..."politically sensitive areas". In NIMBY-ese, that means: EVERYWHERE. And once you concede the town centers, it'll be everyone's backyard that becomes "politically sensitive". Then the places where nobody lives, because nature. They want so so hard to believe that wires are completely...

They're not going to unpack it. I've heard Muller talk before. He's a complete and total kool-aid drinker on the magic of batteries to solve all the world's problems and get you out of jail free from having to string icky wires. They are not looking into these factual discrepancies at all...

If the shuttles need a whole 10 minutes of buffer to time a connection, what exactly does that say about anticipated schedule adherence of SCR trains on the Old Colony? Egad. Name one first-world transit country that needs 10 whole minutes of fudge factor to do a simple cross-platform transfer.

This is such a crock of shit it's not even funny. Total belief in magic beans when there's reams of data on the cost breakdowns showing this is not true.

That's basically what Hartford is doing with the I-84 Aetna Viaduct after choking on the very bigness of the process involved with their proposed replacement. It's morphed into a neverending cost drain of neverending patch jobs, with the perma-fix seemingly never further off than it is now.

Not true at all. The FRA mandates the same time-consuming brakes and systems checks for any turnaround, diesel or electric. There's lots of employee testimonials on RR.net for the fastest achievable turnaround times, and it coalesces around 10 minutes if they really hurry and everything goes...

THIS...HAS...NOTHING...TO...DO...WITH...GLX. What part of that is so hard to understand?

The suburbs are building bike lanes too! You have to get out to some pretty regressive places for there to be a pervasive lack of normalization for things like bike lanes on major urban/near-urban thoroughfares. It's just not got much shock value anymore, especially the ignorant argument that...