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There were elevators not pictured in those renders, and the egress location in general would have limited wiggle room because of the need to interface with the legacy Green and Orange transfer stations from the mezzanines. So there probably was not any practical option to place the egresses...

I can't imagine the T's refuse would perform well on intercity routes. The flats ride like ass in their dotage, much worse than the Horizons which at least had a lot more preventative maintenance on their trucks because of the rigors of daily intercity running and the need for a comfortable...

It's not even hand-wringing with Alewife. It's more like a "meh...it's on the edge of town by the highway" sort of rudderlessness. That's why it's hard to perceive of a little more height-driven density really drawing out the opposition where there hasn't been many. They haven't exactly been...

SL Phase III's tunnel bore interacted with building foundations at both Chinatown and Boylston stations, adding a lot of mitigation cost to the core segment. The project's tripling price tag between 2003-2009 wasn't all tied up in the flailing over portal locations; a good portion of it was the...

Sort of, but not likely. Only the HSP-46 locomotives are rated for 90; the F40PH-3C's and GP40MC's are still capped at 79 MPH. The 33 unrebuilt 900-series Kawasaki coaches are also still capped at 79, though they're coming due for a (still yet unfunded) rebuild that would uprate them. And of...

There's only 152 active single-levels right now, with 85 stored (some of them languishing out-of-service since before COVID) and a couple dozen sold or scrapped. They haven't been using 260 single-levels' worth of capacity for a long time now. The "discrepancy" gets squared by culling the...

https://media.amtrak.com/2025/03/amtrak-statement-an-update-to-our-horizon-cars/ Amtrak removes its entire 104-car Horizon fleet from service after routine inspections found extensive corrosion on the undersides of their aluminum carbodies. Mass cancellations on the Cascades and several...

I have never come across those people. There's a shitload more housing around Alewife than there was 10-15 years ago, and the Reservoir paths are decidely much busier than they've ever been. It doesn't seem to be unleashing a massive crisis of conscience in the locals that has them storming...

There are NIMBY's at Alewife? In my experience having lived there it's just sort of all-around rudderless on decision-making rather than actively repressed by any faction. That section of Concord Ave. is mostly featureless office buildings and the public golf course. There's not enough...

They knew this was going to happen from Day 1 of selecting the M'boro Alternative, and buried it so nobody would ask questions. Old Colony dispatching was only designed from the beginning of the studies 30+ years ago for Middleboro, Kingston/Plymouth, and Greenbush to operate in perfect...

Not just there. Campello gets hosed being in the same city as Brockton and Montello. I'd do: Montello+Brockton+Campello - 4 Bridgewater - 5 Middleboro - 6 (same as fellow 495-sited stops Mansfield, Forge Park, Lowell, and Lawrence) East Taunton - 7 the branches - 8 They're afraid to do it...

That's quite the wack Zone progression right there. They got the endpoints right, but the gradations to that point are just awful and in dire need of a reboot.

Downed wire on the NEC center track in Hyde Park (River St.) that put up quite the fireworks show.

Reconstruction, even for structural repair purposes, triggers automatic compliance under the Mass Architectural Board accessibility regs...so there's no exemption possible for Valley Rd. anymore unless they leave the station completely as-is. My guess is that they'd be significantly re-grading...

No. It's been shrunk from 12 trainsets to 8 to now 4, so isn't much storage to begin with. And they net more storage than this when they build the Readville maintenance facility if they make the construction-temporary Yard 1 layover they've already negotiated with CSX permanent instead of...

Scrapped in 2021 with most of the 1978-ordered fleet. The original F40PH "Screamers" weren't rebuilt again despite the general immortality of the F40 lineage because they lacked separate HEP generators like the later and still-going 1987-88 and 1991-93 orders and had to run the prime mover at...

He leads a caucus of only 5 Senators. I'd be grumpy, too, if I were that powerless in my job.

Another special paint job applied to a rehabbed GP40MC. This one celebrates the original T locomotive scheme with the yellow stripes: Original scheme on an F40PH, 1979:

As noted in the UHub comments, the library that Flynn complained people can't get to has been closed for renovations for a couple of years now. What a gasbag.

North St. is already quadrant at the sidewalk level, since it has the mini sidewalk gates on the opposite sides of the main gates. Birch (where this hit took place) has 3 of 4 sidewalk sides gated, omitting only the awkward intersection with Railroad St. where the road crossing bleeds into the...