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I wish I knew how to copy You Tube videos to this page but I'm sure someone else knows how to. If you search William Sternitzke's You Tube page you will find a fascinating video of the South Coast route. It starts at Stoughton Station, proceeds to No Easton Station and then shows a back of the...

If the proposal is to begin a Yellow line at Columbia, wouldn't it presume the Braintree branch of the Red Line would merge, but south of Savin Hill, thus preserving a single seat ride to the core, from Quincy and Braintree?

If you're talking about having to go over the Fairmount Line I presume you mean the part that goes to the Seaport? If so, there is already a bridge in place for that. It is used to access the Cabot Facility from the Red Line.

Just because I didn't mention it doesn't mean I wouldn't include the crossovers that are already in place to provide flexibility for eastbound moves at Forest Hills . And I am NOT advocating the elimination of the Needham Branch . I believe that is where some of the reluctance arises here . I...

If I could Well, I think everyone would agree the idea of putting back 4 tracks on the Corridor where they previously existed and extending them to Canton Junction is a good idea. And if all those experts had asked me in 1979, I would have recommended a 4-track railroad , signaled for...

Guys I'm talking from my personal experience. The Amtrak trains are running at close to twice the operating speed of commuter trains and the acceleration of the commuter trains is awful and they're the ones that make all the local stops. The back up of faster Amtrak getting caught behind...

It was the siding to the Boston Herald. We delivered cars of paper there.

1. Your diagram is what I would propose. What it would address is the challenge of running faster Amtrak trains and slower express commuter trains with slower local-stop commuter trains. That is really not a problem westbound out of So Station. The Acela just goes first and the Regional and...

Let me try. First, Plains is East and Forest is West. What you have drawn on the west end of the diagram is what I had in mind. But Track 4 would have an outside platform and then merge with tk 2., east of that new platform. Track no. 3 at the west end of the diagram would be a through main...

All tracks are and would remain bi-directional but the two southernmost tracks would merge at Forest. They usually carry inbound traffic Those are the tracks that would merge so that 4 tracks west of Forest Hills would become three into the "trench" that is the Southwest Corridor. The middle...

Thank you. So new to this I'm learning as I go. I have read the posts for years and enjoyed them, but I'm not that savvy on the computer. Big apologies! But I'm having fun at the same time! So,I got that going for me!

Im sorry if its confusing so I will not use track numbers. There would be 2 eastbound tracks approaching Forest from Readville. They would merge at Forest. The way to make room for this would run the northernmost Corridor track on the northern side of the existing platform at Forest Hills, It...

Mr. F. There is no number 4 track on the SW Corridor. They are , south to north , 3, 1, 2 The current timetable designated track number 2 from Readville to Forest Hills runs on what used to be track number 4. Tk 1 runs on what was originally Tk 2, and Tk 3 runs on what was originally tk 1...

I do not understand the agitation over The Needham line being somehow constrained . All the other branches that I can think of: Stoughton, Danbury, and New Canaan, merge to the main lines via single track .

And you are right about crossover moves contributing to congestion. Even with high speed crossovers on the NE Corridor, trains have to slow down to 80. The only hitch with high speed crossovers, the ones Amtrak built, needed wider track centers. Using that design in any re-configuration at...

The top operating speed will be 160. The FRA mandated that Acela I's would could not exceed 130 in any curve, even if it was designed to a higher speed. I'm told that restriction will be 150MPH on the new trains. That leads to the possibility of the maximum authorized speed of the Acela 2...

One, I am not a troll. Two. Adding a track adds capacity. the track 4 that would be "forced " to merge at Forest Hills would have enabled that Acela to pass the Stoughton or Providence Local it was forced to follow into Boston, It happened to me more times than I can count. And having 4...

It adds a track between Forest Hills and Readville where the faster Amtrak trains can overtake slower commuter trains. The idea of a single branch line entering the main line works well at Canton Junction. It does not appreciably constrain the Needham Branch. Amtrak's top speed in this territory...