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Hard to believe that the Old Colony lines are almost 29 years old. This service disruption is for the Boston-Braintree main affecting all OC trains. There are definitely things on the mainline coming up on replacement age (signaling, etc.) that need good preventative maintenance to stay reliable.

There's a finite amount of transit and land-use potential on the Conn River Line on account of the uniformly extremely closeby river itself. You don't have many bridges crossing the navigable river meaning the line has half-catchments over most of its length, and there's a lot of wetlands along...

Unlikely there'd be the service levels to merit it to Greenfield. The Valley isn't super-dense, so I doubt better-than-hourly service would draw enough. The NECR mainline north of Northfield is also an autorack-clearance (19'6") route and VTrans-identified future double-stack (20'6") route so...

Wouldn't bet on it soon. The last ConnDOT study on electrification of the Metro-North branches and Hartford used Caltrain electrification budgeting math, which completely blew it out to boondogglish proportions that broke the cost-benefit calculation. Just another example of how Caltrain...

Game: count the number of illegal parking maneuvers in their flyer photo!

The hourly Springfield-NYC service would probably entail extension of the Keystones from terminating-NY trains to thru-NY trains, since those run on a mostly hourly cadence. That's been talked about extensively as a long-term consideration. Capacity for it will exist once the top-down rehab of...

It's still variable-tension cat over the new bridge instead of fixed (though supposedly the structures are fully compatible with constant-tension if the bookending track is ever upgraded).

They haven't formally committed to it yet; Shore Line East is still running EMU's today. But the problem is not the pricing per se, but the turf warrage between Amtrak and ConnDOT. Friction over the state's heavy hand over Metro-North territory spills over into Amtrak-initiated skirmishes in...

They would only have to come up with 2 more feet's worth of curve radius in the reconfig to equal Park St. loop, which isn't going to be modified. So it's not that big an ask. Looping is definitely appropriate for a terminus like the B's where they have to triage a lot of between-headway...

I'm not talking about the equipment pool. I already said that. I'm talking about revenue. Where does Amtrak become convinced to give up its Boston revenue on any slot? Northeast Regionals are national trains. State sponsorship only goes as far as extensions off of the main trunk. Amtrak is...

Again...what is Amtrak's own motivation for diverting service away from its NEC profit center, regardless of what MassDOT wants to pay for? I know the equipment shortage is easing. I know NYP capacity is going to increase post-Gateway. But what's Amtrak's business motivation, after they...

You'd probably have to do it in Providence where they have the extra platforms to stage a timed transfer. That's how the Cape Codder worked in its last season when it was relegated to a timed-transfer shuttle with a Regional (the severing of a thru NY-DC connection is what killed its...

There is not a chance in hell that Amtrak is going to divert regular Northeast Regional service away from Boston at Attleboro to a tertiary market with all the ridership that ends up losing at 128+Back Bay+South Station on the NEC trunk. Hell, even when the Cape Codder was running its piddly...

Those crossings are all un-gated with flashers-only. The T probably doesn't want the railroad insurance hit of running through that many un-gated public crossings in revenue service, especially since all of them have now long been eliminated on the Cape Flyer. The Framingham Secondary is Class...

That's exactly the case: no Providence-Foxboro trips at all, the only service offered confirmed being from South Station. Getting the trains out of the way of each other after unloading means that the idle sets are going to have to block the Mansfield direction of the Framingham Secondary...

Available numbers are lagging the rostered "active" numbers by quite a bit because of deferred inspections and repairs. There are bi-levels that've been parked in Somerville on the Cobble Hill track for months because of various ailments, and per Reddit a new string of them has appeared in...

More like robbing themselves. The T, even with the steep event tix price markup and likely sellouts, is likely to lose more money running the World Cup schedules than it would running regular commuter schedules because of all the max-length trainsets that will be out-of-commission for 4 hours...

The real Urban Ring Major Investment Study (BRT version) proposed a branch to JFK.

https://www.mbta.com/news/2026-03-09/mbta-run-four-event-trains-march-26-road-26-brazil-vs-france-friendly-match T releases its schedule for the Thursday, March 26 Brazil vs. France friendly, which is the service tune-up for the real World Cup transit strategy. As expected, running that much...

The 230 stops literally on the corner of Plain @ Hancock and also at the secondary egress driveway/grade crossing on Hancock 1 stop up. You can't get any more transit-accessible.