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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...

Because South Station has direct road and transit connections to just about everywhere, including BU and Harvard and including all of the rest of the urban universities not named BU and Harvard. It's the densest connecting node in the whole city with the superset of demand, and that's why the...

Looks like it's supposed to be an access road to the layover yard below, given that there appears to be pavement on the ground level continuing from the same trajectory after the deck ends. Though I have no idea how it descends below-deck because there's nothing but station tracks underneath...

Harvard seems to think that the functions of what they build there will have a built-in audience for a one-seat instead of two-seat to the LMA. And that's a reasonable assumption if what they build there indeed does (biotech?), because it's not that long a route and should have decent schedule...

I wouldn't read too much into that rumor. The CSX employee on RR.net has already walked back the additional rumor that CSX was going to be installing an engine turntable at recently-cleared Barbers Yard in Worcester, so either the sources aren't too reliable or CSX is still brainstorming a...

It's not "many" private shuttles. It's 3 routes: Harvard campus shuttle, for Harvard I.D. holders LMA campus shuttle, for Longwood Collective I.D. holders Kendall+Lechmere shuttle, for MIT I.D. holders and a so-far unspecified (Charles River TMA???) Kendall biz collective That's it. The...