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CRRC's probably going to join Breda on the MBTA's "no way" list unless they can iron out the problems with the Springfield factory. I'd be more than a little surprised to see a governor willing to sign another deal with them without some ironclad assurances that the procurement won't turn into a...

That would make sense. Congress can only handle two tracks, right? Or am I confused on that one again?

Is that even possible on a CA/T alignment? The transfers would be absurd (not that they'd be short in any event with how deep the NSRL would be). Also, unless the surface terminals get completely abandoned, not being able to connect from North Station on the surface to the NSRL without a...

Maybe we're talking about different things, because "Bluebirds" as I understand them are the #5 Cambridge-Dorchester cars (01400 series), which absolutely have a (fairly subtle) inward curve of the sides near the floor as is visible in this picture you posted. It's a similar profile to the...

The #5 cars absolutely had an inward curve at the base of the side walls near the floor, similar to the #1-2 Red Line cars. It's less pronounced than the 'bowed' effect visible on the #3 (01800) cars. To my eye the new #4 cars shape looks more like the Bombardier #3s than the old Bluebirds...

The titles of the two threads can help a bit. The other thread is basically anything touching the Northeast Corridor (Acela, the Regionals, the Keystones, things like the Downeaster), and this thread is for everything outside the NEC and New England (including Amtrak's long distance services)...

This was the Baker & Company patented Tankapalooza (TM), right?

Amtrak's own statement is similarly a little vague (not mentioning the Cardinal, for one, but mentioning the Crescent). It's an RFI, so it doesn't sound like they're completely set on what, specifically, they're buying. Obviously a single-level design could replace the existing single-level...

Probably something to do with all the rear-endings they've had over the years. They've allowed multiple trains in a station at a time, so in that circumstance you probably don't want operators having a "muscle memory" of being able to go 25+ in station areas when there might be another train in...

I did not know that. I overlooked the docket...again. (My experiences with the prior version of the interface might have had something to do with that.) Makes sense that they meant the B-line, given that's the portion of the system they were focusing on. Not the first time they've been sloppy...

Is it, though? I thought so, though page 5 of this NTSB report on the 2021 B-line rear-ending says that 25 is the Green Line's maximum speed. (Though the NTSB could have got that wrong, the document they cite that figure to is not available online.)

Not NEC/New England related, maybe should be in this thread for other Amtrak topics?

Whoops. My mistake. That's what I get for blindly trusting OpenRailwayMap. (Looks like there was a connection that was removed at some point, based on the Google Earth view.) I'm curious as to whether the freight volumes are sufficient to interfere with passenger traffic enough to warrant such...

ER is shorthand for the Eastern Route (the ex-Boston & Maine line that's now the Newburyport/Rockport Line, which used to extend up to Maine). There have been various proposals on here to rebuild the northern part of the Eastern Route to host the Downeaster service, to help speed up the trip to...

I mean, yes, being an arm of the Chinese state means CRRC is inevitably in the service of the CCP's political priorities, whatever they may be. That said, main-CRRC has operations in a lot of places that aren't the US or China, and it would be an oddly self-harming mechanism of "punishing the...

I find it somewhat hard to believe that a company would do that willingly. They still have sizeable outstanding US orders (including the MBTA's and the CTA's), with, one would expect, significant financial penalties if the cars are late, defective, or simply not built at all, not to mention the...

Yup, just like the previous fiasco with Breda. Oh, wait, they're Italian. Or Boeing. No, hang on, they're American. It's a good question, albeit one we're not likely to ever fully get an answer to, what things went wrong to make this procurement go so disastrously off the rails (pun fully...

Mhmm, because there's another manufacturer with a surplus of cars just waiting to go that somehow miraculously fit our idiosyncratic tunnel dimensions? It's absolutely understandable to be irate about CRRC's failures and their impacts on the T's ability to provide reliable and sufficient (and...

There's definitely good reasons to have some unification of the various state-run passenger rail operations, and I don't think that it'd necessarily be practical or advisable for the MBTA service district to progressively assimilate all the new territory that would be added, say, by East-West...

Absolutely agree. The ferries do feel like an afterthought, which to me is all the more reason not to hive them off into something separate, because how would that not make them less of an afterthought unless Beacon Hill is planning a massive expansion of water transportation? (Aren't the...