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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...

The Weaver's Cove NIMBY's are battle-tested, as the current layover site is adjacent to what was once the proposed site of a liquid natural gas ship unloading terminal. The LNG proposal thrashed around for most of the 2000's, before being formally abandoned in the face of unrelenting opposition...

There's no physical way to use the historic site for a stop that hits both the B&A and Central Corridor alignments from one access point. The switches to NECR's busy Palmer freight yard are literally 300 ft. south of the B&A diamond not allowing much of a platform, you can't physically have...

DCR and/or the towns don't own it yet. It's still CSX property with the towns paying a nominal monthly rent, so they weren't given much choice in surfaces as crushed stone was all that the landlord would allow. To do anything else would require first resolving the ownership situation.

They were involved in a fairly severe derailment on the Wellington yard switches in 2021 shortly before the big line-wide shutdown for track repair. The damaged pair pulverized a signal box as they left the tracks, so there was some amount of carbody damage. They're under warranty, so CRRC...

Sounds like a downed wire.

Additional detail. . . Coach power (Head-end Power, or HEP) in the U.S. uses three-phase 480V AC power, fed between cars by a specific nationalized cabling standard such that any train can cross-pollinate their layover usage across the continent (see: Amtrak) and also cross-pollinate basic...

No. There's a pronounced ridership bump-out around Mt. Vernon St. at the midpoint between Center and Heights that would be left un-served by the Red Line, since there isn't enough street grid affinity to fashion an extra Red intermediate stop somewhere around there. That bump-out + the...

If it's just a +1 the Needham ROW is tri-track width from Forest Hills to Rozzie, so the Needham Line would be singled with OLX taking the other two berths. You'd probably need to install a passing siding on Commuter Rail between some of the other stops to offset the loss of the double-track...