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T locomotives can't even run in reverse because there's no rear control stand on any of the revenue fleet (not even the GP40's, which used to have rear controls before they were converted from freight units), so detaching and running around the train via crossovers wouldn't even work. Usually...

...by rescinding billions in Gateway grants?:unsure:

The design fails first of all for not having a freight passing solution on CSX's mainline high-and-wide clearance route. Plate F boxcars roam the line every single day transporting paper products from the big Maine mills, and the very close proximity to the big curve on the Fore River wye means...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-red-blue-connector-a-half-mile-of-subway-that-benefits-an-entire-region/ Aloisi & co. with another op-ed in favor of fast-tracking Red-Blue.

It's a mile-long bridge that you'd have to outfit with suicide fences at sufficient cost bloat, and it connects to absolutely zilch for sidewalk or path infrastructure on either side of the bay with the south side being heavy industry and the north side being an MDOT highway division barracks...

North Station was originally built for 6 cars, same as Community College thru Oak Grove. Orange had been planned since the 1960's for lengthening to 6 cars, because the SW Corridor realignment was decided on a >20 years before it actually opened and thus 6 cars was already in the works before...

Apropos of nothing. . . https://www.notus.org/campaigns/seth-moulton-democrats-ed-markey-trans-rights-2026-election-massachusetts But, but...I was told BiG tEnTs R bAd? Oh noes...now you've done it, Seth! By reading the polling and starting to seek ideological consistency on a set of...

Generally speaking, if you're being called racist, transphobic, and xenophobic "often", as you say, some self-examination as to cause-and-effect would be in order. Same with the walking-on-eggshells in front of white liberals thing. It's really, really not hard at all to be not-bigoted in...

No...they would've done absolutely nothing until the GP40's were failing at such an astronomical rate that they had to start cutting service from the lack of serviceable bodies. That's the governance-by-Pioneer way. It was Deval Patrick's people who decided to order the HSP-46 unicorns the...

They did: Osgood Bradley of Worcester. Which later became a Pullman-Standard factory after Pullman bought them out in the 1930's. Railcars were manufactured at the Worcester factory until Pullman closed it in 1960. A relatively small order of Type 4A trolleys happened to be the only direct...

The GP40's aren't Tier 0+, excepting a very few units that got recently rehabbed out of the Rochester dead line. There's also some fuel and emissions savings from the Chargers (and the Tier 3 HSP-46's) using alternators off the prime mover for the coach HEP power instead of a second diesel...

The rules of the procurement was that you had to meet the technical specifications to be a valid bidder. CSR didn't do that, so they weren't allowed to bid at all and got culled before that process even started. It doesn't make much difference if their assembly process went corporately...

In 2036. With, again, no statements whatsoever from the organization that they are even thinking of looking for a new arena much less that their relationship with Jacobs/Delaware North is non-productive enough that a lease extension past 2036 would be any bit a question mark. The Celtics sell...

Completion isn't expected until 2030, although that's probably going to be a bit late because prelim work was expected to start this year and obviously hasn't. They would need to rebuild Wellesley Farms, Wellesley Square, Wellesley Hills, and West Natick stations as part of the project, so...

How are you going to extract enough money from local employers to make this a reality if you're not doing some sort of tax? Donations? Appealing to their better nature? Yes, for-profit corporations with shareholders whose sole reason for living is the next quarterly-earnings report just...

That's just about the least amount of density a line could go through between cities, because 195 was laid out to chew up wetlands and avoid what passed for built-up areas everywhere from the RI state line to touchdown in Downtown Fall River, and from exiting Downtown Fall River to entering...

There's honestly not a lot left to preserve with at least 5 major encroachments between the end of RR landbanking at School St. and Irving St. a few blocks before the Square. What's left has been functionally useless for either a future transit ROW or even a path for several years now. If they...

And where are you going to find "less single track" with a ROW out of East Providence that would have to be built rail-with-trail next to a very popular bike path, and virtually no extant ROW at all in Massachusetts. Route 103 is a 2-lane road with no parking that has no side median because of...

The River Line is not exactly an aspirational target, as its schedule adherence is complete shit due to said single-tracking and has for the last 10 years been in a doom loop of ever-encroaching schedule cuts due to its unreliability begatting cuts begatting ridership losses begatting more cuts...

Chicago, too. Although both Chicago and L.A. passed on large option orders in favor of RFP's for all-new vehicles from different manufacturers, so both their orders are winding down. Pretty unlikely there'll be any more U.S. customers given that L.A.'s were pretty late, the T's...