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I wonder whose service is going to need to be cut to make that happen. 14 sets + 2 spares (and I'm assuming these will all have to be max-length all- bi-levels to swallow the crowds) is an ENORMOUS equipment commitment. 6 of the 7 Foxboro WC games are scheduled on weekdays, so somebodies on...

New York Central heritage-paint unit is done and about to enter service. This is the paint scheme that all Boston & Albany trains used to run in, because the NYC was their parent company. F40 #1071 (the one that's currently running in all-black primer) is supposed to get painted in the...

Yes. It used to handle 97 trains per day until the late-1950's when the Pike + I-91's opening slashed back the B&A, B&M, and NYNH&H schedules here. And the 4-way directional blender + very divergent-service users at this site (terminating commuter rail and regional intercity, thru...

That's the one! Nov. '23 NEC Commission report. https://nec-commission.com/wp-content/uploads/C37-Full-Report-Nov-23.pdf Page 26: It says generic "electric service", but they mean EMU because those travel time reductions are not possible with anything other than EMU's/BEMU's. EDIT: The %...

Yes. An Amtrak slide deck published last year that had precise EMU-projected travel times to Providence and Wickford. I can't find it on board search; it was either many pages ago in this thread or in the Commuter Rail thread. The 16-18% figure tracks with many other known world cases of time...

Platform A is going to be needed for the Vermonter and Valley Flyer because they operationally reverse off the north wye to get into the station and you don't want to do too extreme a number of crossover games if you want to keep that from being a schedule drag. "A" will probably also be used...

Wynn must be one shrewd but terminally online transit nerd, because that promised $25M is never going to be spent once the T clarifies up-front that the grade in front of Encore is too steep for a legal ADA-compliant station.

Good on TransitMatters for already hammering the point that this purchase does nothing to actually improve service like EMU's/BEMU's would very noticeably improve service. As an example of how this hurts, I did some math recently on the T's bi-level for single-level coach replacement based on...

https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/26/markey-leads-moulton-in-new-ma-senate-poll-see-numbers/88858684007/ New Markey-Moulton poll shows Ed Markey slightly expanding his lead over Seth Moulton to 12 points (he beat Joe Kennedy by 9 six years ago), a +3 improvement from...

https://www.trains.com/pro/mechanical/passenger-cars/amtrak-ends-plans-for-new-bi-level-cars/ Amtrak pulls the plug on plans for bi-level Superliner coach replacements. Will instead expand the East Coast long-distance single-level procurement nationwide for fleet commonality. The RFP...

Aloisi is very good; him vs. Chieppo is such a not-fair fight the refs should've intervened to stop it after the first round. But damn does Comm Beacon rely on him an awful lot for op-eds and podcast bookings; he's become like a load-bearing wall for them. Their sourcing for transpo coverage...

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/some-councilors-say-proposed-center-bus-lanes-blue-hill-avenue-are Bus lanes and having buses run frequently and on-time in bus lanes is totes racist, says car-brained Council dunderheads. (Yes, Ed Flynn is prominently involved.) 🤦‍♂️

Per the Board presentation today and the newly-issued RFP the T is partnering with MARC on the battery procurement: 10 batt locos and 10 diesels on the base order for the T, 5 batt locos and 0 diesels on the base order for Maryland. MARC is using the base order to retire their 6 problem-plagued...

Nothing direct-comparable. Stadler hasn't even built a BEMU KISS set yet that's running anywhere in the world; Caltrain is self-flagellating for the task of being that first-time guinea pig. It kind of has to be an apples-apples EMU vs. BEMU configuration, because of the wide variances in...

BTW...here's some required (if technical) reading on loco vs. EMU performance, based on specs for the Caltrain corridor. http://tillier.net/stuff/caltrain/diesel_vs_elecloco_vs_emu.pdf EMU's do about 17% faster times (138 seconds) to reach 79 MPH from a dead stop than a diesel (166 seconds)...

Can't. They're narrower and shorter than Red Line cars and wouldn't be anywhere close to safe to berth at a platform with the step-down and the pronounced gap. The T did use several sets of retired Orange 01100 cars on Red from 1981-87 as work cars, but those were strictly on the overnight...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/the-codcast/administrative-fat-or-amnesia-how-much-should-we-spend-on-the-mbta/ Pioneer Institute takes yet another whack at (campaigning for their alum Brian Shortsleeve) bringing back the FCMB in their second podcast appearance in 4 weeks. This time Charlie...

NETransit updated... All Orange Line cars have been accepted into service, and the 2 recent derailment-damaged cars have been repaired and put back into service. 150 active cars, 2 out-of-service (the derailment-damaged pair from several years ago). Actual in-service availability lagging...

They charge on overhead cat and drive traction off the battery. In theory it can throttle the consumption of overhead electricity on a mostly-electrified line by weighting more heavily to the battery at times, which can blunt the effects of being gouged by Amtrak for electricity rates like...

It's nothing nefarious. They just can (and do) cite the 2010 Boston water emergency ad infinitum as reason for staying independent from the MWRA district. Cambridge was pretty much the only community inside of 128 that had drinkable water during the 4 days of the boil emergency that affected...