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If the forced-labor allegations are true, that's definitely on CRRC. Full-stop. But, agreed, the Administration is not really interested in getting to the bottom of that, doesn't seem to be trying very hard at all to get to the bottom of that, and only seems to be doing this to make a show of...

I was a bit more uncertain about that before the T subsequently clarified saying that a Roxbury substation was being proposed to shear off the terminal district and future Fairmount Line from the mainline NEC. If everything under the sun inside of 128 on the future system had been chained to...

How is the development cycle at Beacon Park going to be dead in the long term? Be specific...not just your own shifty personal vibes. :rolleyes:

We're already spending $85M in temp repairs for the current project gridlock making us wait 10 more years for anything to happen. Do you really want to double or triple that figure to wait even longer in complete paralysis? How is that an acceptable choice??? The viaduct is shot. We can't do...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/spain-train-drivers-three-day-strike-railway-crashes Spain has had a really, really, really bad week on the rails.

February 15-March 15 is when the gradual track cutover to the new Portal Bridge is going to take place. NJ Transit schedules are decimated for the whole month with most NYP service being turned at Hoboken because of all the single-tracking and temp slow zones. Amtrak's supposed to be getting...

It's a soft launch with only a couple of buses participating, because these are being run out of Charlestown garage which only has a couple electric charging bays installed for the testing of the fleet. They're saving the 4200's for the full service launch which will come with the service...

Apparently a major problem is that the CRRC's are developing a too-soon rash of flat spots on the wheels, and they're trying both to figure out what's doing that and fix that while actively re-grinding a whole lot of wheel sets so the cars can stay in-service while they're figuring out the...

It's because the Executive Director of Commuter Rail Mike Muller is a full-throated battery stan, and he's the usual agency mouthpiece for CR decarbonization when somebody needs to be interviewed. Eng has delegated a lot of the talking points to Muller, who's never going to come around on the...

It's definitely MUCH less efficient in the U.S. because we're so much more sparsely populated with train systems than the rest of the world, and ubiquitous "Buy America" requirements usually mean there has to be a smaller factory configured only one way at a time instead of a massive, more...

Buses are pretty much always done that way, since there's minimal customization involved for individual orders except for the most superficial livery. The problem with doing it for rail--and especially the MBTA's subway systems--is that everybody's grand mesh of specs nets very different cars...

When it's a procurement of 250 cars, there's nothing that can be "fast-tracked". Procurements are enormously complex processes and typically have half-decade gestation periods at minimum, and with inflation and further industry consolidation afoot in the years since the CRRC deal was inked the...

No. It might make it a little more expensive to do to the north rather than the south on the footprint to the old drawbridge approach, but there's still plenty of room.

The Fairmount BEMU trial is really kooky in that it's wholesale-outsourced to Keolis, who will own and manage the fleet and the maintenance shed they're building for it in-total. It goes by T specs, but they won't be the T's vehicles. I'm not even sure that Fairmount fleet could be made...

I remember the Boston Phoenix about 25 years ago once nominated in its Best of Boston issue this foreboding concrete wall outside the Russell Field-facing headhouse as the "best place in town to stage the executions after the next Revolution is decided". The whole place has a thorough "ruins of...

NS intermodal train Z618 enters the B&A via Vorheesville, NY in the wee hours of the morning, and arrives at Ayer around 10:00am which means it passes through the back of Worcester Union Station around morning rush. Don't know when the return trip Z619 runs. I don't see any run times for the...

That has happened, but usually because of an OG equipment failure when they got lucky and happened to have a standby NG trainset at the terminal. It basically never happens the other way around.

Actually, the slots the way they're being apportioned right now are being run with only one set type of trainset--NG all-the-time on Train #xxxx or OG all-the-time on Train #yyyy--instead of any of the two fleets taking turns whenever so Amtrak can actively market and sell out the extra 2 cars'...

They don't legally have a choice but to rehab. The T accepted federal funding to originally purchase the HSP's, and there were stipulations attached to that funding that the fleet had to fulfill its rated 25-year lifespan. Well...they're apparently so flawed and unreliable that they need an...

That's CSX Barbers Yard, which they want reactivated for the first time since Guilford/Pan Am let it die in the mid-1990's to become a crew-change pitstop on their Selkirk-Portland runs (right now those changes happen awkwardly at a random grade crossing) and place to drop cuts of cars for...